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Stateira (Greek: Στάτειρα; 370 BC – early 332 BC) was a queen of Persia as the wife of Darius III of Persia of the Achaemenid dynasty. She accompanied her husband while he went to war. It was because of this that she was captured by Alexander the Great after the Battle of Issus, in 333 BC, at the town of Issus.
Stateira (Greek: Στάτειρα; died 323 BC), possibly also known as Homa, was the daughter of Stateira and Darius III of Persia. After her father's defeat at the Battle of Issus , Stateira and her sisters became captives of Alexander of Macedon .
Dec 27, 2016 · Sisygambis (Sisigambis) was the mother of Darius III of Persia, and Stateira I was his wife. Stateira II was one of Stateira I and Darius III’s daughters. Thus, the three women were all members of the famous Achaemenid dynasty – which provided them with special characteristics in Alexander’s eyes.
- Natalia Klimczak
Stateira was the name of two royal women in the Achaemenid period, one the daughter of Hydarnes and wife of Artaxerxes II, and the other the sister and wife of Darius III. The former was influential and popular, but killed by Parysatis, while the latter accompanied Darius to face Alexander the Great.
Feb 8, 2024 · The daughter of King Darius, Stateira, and her mother had been captured by the Macedonian army after the battle of Issus in 333. As shown in the docuseries, Alexander treated both women with respect during their captivity. Darius' daughter soon after became Alexander's second wife in 324 BC.
Stateira (called Barsine in Arr. 7.4.4-8) was the daughter of Darius III. She was also captured after the battle of Issus in 333 BC, along with her sister Drypetis, her mother and her grandmother. (Arr. 2.11.9; Diod. 35f; Pl. Alex. 20.6-21; Curt. 3.11.24-26).
Statira II was the wife and probably half-sister of Darius III, king of the Persian Empire, though many sources claim she was his sister. Like Darius, Statira was likely the daughter of the Persian noble Arsanes, but she was never named as the daughter of Darius' mother Sisygambis .
