Hvem daterede Barsine?

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.

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.

Twelve years after Alexander's death in 323 BC, Barsine's son-in-law Nearchus unsuccessfully advocated for Heracles' claim to the throne, who was then seventeen, having been born about five years after Barsine and Alexander supposedly met in Damascus in 333 BC. From a comparison of the accounts of Diodorus and Justin, it appears that he was brought up at Pergamum under his mother's care, and that she shared his fate when in 309 BC Polyperchon was induced by Cassander to murder him. Barsine is sometimes confused with Stateira II, wife of Alexander, who also may have been called "Barsine".

Alexander 3. ("Alexander den Store") (gr.:Μέγας Αλέξανδρος født sidst i juli 356 f.Kr., død 10. juni 323 f.Kr.) var konge af det græske Makedonien.

Αλέξανδρος betyder "ham der holder mænd på afstand", "beskytter af mænd". Han var søn af kong Filip 2. af Makedonien og hans 4. dronning Olympias prinsesse af Epeiros, datter af kong Neoptolemos, konge over Molosserne. Ifølge Plutarch ((Alexander 3.1,3) nedstammer Alexanders far fra Herakles og hans mor fra den græske helt Achilleus. Han vidste det fra sin moder. Hun påstod, at Alexander var søn af selveste Zeus og derfor var en halvgud. Det var der mange, der troede på, og Alexander fik en sær magt over folk og hær. Muligvis har det haft indflydelse på, at der var få, der gjorde forsøg på at skade ham, selv om de flere gange havde grund og lejlighed til det.

Troen på, at en almindelig dødelig kunne være søn af en gud, var helt almindelig blandt grækere. Det var almindeligt, at herskere brugte guddommeligt slægtsskab til befæstelse af deres position. Cæsar nedstammede således fra Venus.

De græske bystater var samlet under Alexanders far. Men Alexander måtte generobre dem efter en række oprør og kunne først to år efter sin tronbestigelse erobre Persien, Egypten og en række andre kongedømmer. Han nåede det nordlige Indien. Erobringerne medførte en hurtig spredning af græsk kultur i det sydøstlige Europa og store dele af Asien.