At Susa Alexander held a feast to celebrate the seizure of the Persian empire, at which, in furtherance of his coverage of fusing Macedonians and Persians into 1 learn race, he and eighty of his officers took Persian wives; he and Hephaestion married Darius’s daughters Barsine (also known as Stateira) and Drypetis, respectively, and 10,000 of his