Definition: In 327 B.C., Roxane, a Bactrian princess and the daughter of Oxyartes, married Alexander the Great. Roxane gave birth to Alexander's posthumous son, Alexander Aegus and had Alexander's second wife, Stateira (Barsine), killed. Alexander Aegus was accepted by the Macedonian generals as co-ruler with Alexander the Great's half-brother Philip III Arrhidaeus. Roxane went to live with Alexander the Great's mother Olympias in 319, but then was captured by one of Alexander the Great's successors, Cassander, in 316. Cassander had Roxane and her son killed.
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