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The king gave Caranus a magnificent funeral and then proceeded to Susa, where he married Stateira, the elder daughter of Dareius, and gave her younger sister Drypetis as wife to Hephaestion. He prevailed upon the most prominent of his Friends to take wives also, and gave them in marriage the noblest Persian ladies.1

1 Curtius 10.3.11-12; Justin 12.10.9-10; Plut. Alexander 70.2; Arrian. 7.4.4-8. There were one hundred couples (Plut. De Fortuna aut Virtute Alexandri 1.7.329e). Justin and Plutarch report that Alexander married Stateira; Arrian names Barsine and Parysatis. This marriage was described in detail by Chares, Alexander's minister of protocol (Athenaeus 12.538b-539a).

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