Parysatis II

Parysatis ( Old Persian Parušyatiš ) was in the 4th century BC, a Persian nobleman and since 324 BC, one of the wives of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great and the Egyptian pharaoh.

Life

Parysatis was the youngest daughter of the Achaemenid king Artaxerxes III. She accompanied King Darius III. on his campaign against the Macedonians, came after the battle of Issus (333 BC) with her ​​mother and sisters in Damascus in the hands of the victorious Alexander the Great, who in the mass wedding at Susa (324 BC. ) simultaneously. Stateira with, the eldest daughter of Darius III, married.

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