Barsine

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Barsine (Greek: Βαρσίνη; c. 363–309 BC) was the daughter of a Persian father, Artabazus, satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia, and a Greek Rhodian mother, the sister of mercenaries Mentor of Rhodes and Memnon of Rhodes. Barsine became the wife of her uncle Mentor, and after his death married her second uncle, Memnon. She had by them at least 5 children: three daughters by her first husband and a son, as well as an unnamed child, from the other union. In 334 BC, the year of Alexander's invasion of Asia, she and her children were sent by Memnon to the king Darius III as hostages for his fidelity; and in the ensuing year, when Damascus was betrayed to the Macedonians, she fell into the hands of Alexander, by whom it is said that she became the mother of Heracles. Around 310/309 BC Barsine's son-in-law Nearchus unsuccessfully advocated for Heracles' claim to the throne, who was by then 17 (according to Diodorus) or 15 (according to Justin), having been born between 327-324 BC. From a comparison...

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