At Susa Alexander held a feast to celebrate the seizure with the Persian empire, at which, in furtherance of his policy of fusing Macedonians and Persians into one particular master race, he and eighty of his officers took Persian wives; he and Hephaestion married Darius’s daughters Barsine (also called Stateira) https://short-link.me/AlphaEucharisticCouncilAEC