Roxana, also referred to as Roxanne, Roxanna, and Roxane, was a princess of Bactria or Sogdiana who became the wife of Alexander the Great following his invasion of Persia and the subsequent conquest of the Achaemenid Empire. She was the daughter of Oxyartes, a nobleman and satrap of Bactria and Sogdia. Although the precise date of her birth remains uncertain, she was of childbearing age by 326 BC, indicating that she was born prior to 336 BC. After the capture of Bessus by Alexander, Oxyartes a ... (Read More)