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[[Image:Alexander The Greate and Roxane by Rotari 1756.jpg|thumb|Alexander The Great and Roxane]]
'''Roxana''' ([[Bactrian language|Bactrian]], [[Persian language|Persian]]: [[Roshanak]]; Bactrian definition literally "luminous beauty"; Persian definition "the dawn"), was a [[Bactria]]n noble and a wife of [[Alexander the Great]]. She was born earlier than the year [[341 BC]], though the precise date remains uncertain. She was the daughter of a Bactrian named [[Oxyartes]] of [[Balkh]] in Bactria (then eastern [[Persian Empire|Persia]], now northern [[Afghanistan]]), and married Alexander in [[327 BC]] after he visited the fortress of [[Sogdian Rock]]. Balkh was the last of the Persian Empire's provinces to fall to Alexander, and the marriage was an attempt to reconcile the Bactrian [[satrap]]ies to Alexander's rule, although ancient sources describe Alexander's professed love for her. Roxana accompanied him on his campaign in [[India]] in [[326 BC]]. She bore him a posthumous son called [[Alexander IV of Macedon|Alexander IV Aegus]], after Alexander's sudden death at [[Babylon]] in [[323 BC]]. With the king's death, Roxana and her son became victims of the political intrigues of the collapse of the Alexandrian empire. Roxana murdered Alexander's other widow, [[Stateira II]], and Stateira's sister [[Drypteis]] (Pl. Alex. 77.4). Roxana and her son were protected by Alexander's mother, [[Olympias]], in [[Macedon]], but her assassination in [[316 BC]] allowed [[Cassander]] to seek kingship. Since Alexander IV Aegus was the legitimate heir to the Alexandrian empire, Cassander ordered him and Roxana assassinated around [[309 BC]].
[[Roxana]] also means "someone who shows the way to others by light" . In old Persia,there was a word [["Rakhshana"]] in base of [["Rakhshan"]] which means light;It changed to
[["Rokhsana"]] and after that to "Roxana".
==External links==
* [http://www.livius.org/ro-rz/roxane/roxane.htm Livius.org: Roxane] by Jona Lendering
* [http://www.ancientlibrary.com/wcd/Roxane%2C_daughter_of_Oxyartes Wiki Classical Dictionary: Roxane, daughter of Oxyartes]
* [http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/2996.html Roxana] from Charles Smith's ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'' (1867)
==Historical Novels==
* Cave, A.J. ''Roxana Romance'' Pavasta: 2008, Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-9802061-0-4, eBook, ISBN 978-0-9802061-1-1
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