One, known as Alexander IV, was his son with his wife Roxana. The other, known as "Heracles of Macedon," was his son with Barsine, his mistress. Roxana was the daughter of a chief in Bactria ...

After Barsine, Alexander was married three times: first to Roxana of Bactria, then to Stateira, the daughter of a Persian king, and finally to Parysatis, whose father was also ruled Persia.

That Greek art was carried to Bactria after the conquests of Alexander would be a natural and reasonable inference. We already had evidence of this from coins, but that it penetrated as far as the ...

his son Alexander IV whom Philip conceived with Princess Roxana of Bactria; and King Philip III Arrhidaeus, Alexander the Great’s half-brother, who ruled for six years after Alexander’s death.

Alexander even had a son, also named Alexander, with Roxana. Regardless of whether true love existed between Alexander and Roxana, following his death, Roxana eliminated both of his other wives ...