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	Alexander the Great
		A few weeks after this murder Alexander captured the Sogdian rock, a fastness from which common care would have sent him away baffled.
		Having next reduced the rock of Chorienes, he returned to Bactra to celebrate his marriage with Roxana, the daughter of Oxyartes, who had been among the captives taken on the Sogdian rock.
		The feast was seized by Alexander as an opportunity for extracting from his Greek and Macedonian followers a public acknowledgment of his divinity.
	www.1902encyclopedia.com /A/ALE/alexander-the-great.html (5867 words)

	SASIGUPTA AND THE POISONING OF ALEXANDER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Rakshasa, after whom the drama is named is clearly Roxyartes or Oxyartes as can be seen from the name of his daughter Roxane.
		It is uncanny to realise that apart from Chanakya and Chandragupta the play has among its dramatis personae the ghost of Alexander, his wife Roxane, his infant son and his father-in-law Oxyartes.
		From the drama itself it is difficult to explain why, after all his misdeeds and bungling, Rakshasa was installed as the Prime minister in preference to the mighty Chanakya, but if one remembers that Roxane, his daughter, became the regent after Alexander’s death, this appears only natural.
	www.1stmuse.com /frames/sasigupta.html (4331 words)

	Alexander the Great - MSN Encarta
		As a statesman and ruler he had grandiose plans; according to many modern historians he cherished a scheme for uniting the East and the West in a world empire, a new and enlightened “world brotherhood of all men.” He trained thousands of Persian youths in Macedonian tactics and enrolled them in his army.
		He himself adopted Persian manners and married Eastern wives, namely, Roxana (died about 311 bc), daughter of Oxyartes of Sogdiana, and Barsine (or Stateira; died about 323 bc), the elder daughter of Darius; and he encouraged and bribed his officers to take Persian wives.
		Shortly before he died, Alexander ordered the Greek cities to worship him as a god.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564408/Alexander_the_Great.html (1336 words)

	AllRefer.com - Iran - Alexander the Great, the Seleucids, and the Parthians \| Iranian Information Resource
		In quick succession he took Egypt, Babylonia, and then, over the course of two years, the heart of the Achaemenid Empire--Susa, Ecbatana, and Persepolis--the last of which he burned.
		Alexander married Roxana (Roshanak), the daughter of the most powerful of the Bactrian chiefs (Oxyartes, who revolted in present-day Tadzhikistan), and in 324 commanded his officers and 10,000 of his soldiers to marry Iranian women.
		The mass wedding, held at Susa, was a model of Alexander's desire to consummate the union of the Greek and Iranian peoples.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/iran/iran11.html (549 words)

	History of the Phoenician Canaanites
		He dies towards evening on June 13, 323 at the age of thirty-three.
		son by Roxana, the beautiful daughter of Oxyartes, king of Bactria, is born a short time later.
		The child, named Alexander "Aegus", is accepted by the Macedonian generals as joint king with Alexander's half-brother, Philip Arrhidaeus, mentally unfit to rule.
	www.phoenicia.org /history.html (11615 words)

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