{"id":23519,"count":2,"description":"Roxana (Avestan: Raoxshna or Roshanak, \"luminous beauty\"; Persian: \u0631\u062e\u0633\u0627\u0646\u0647\u200e Rokhs\u0101na; Pashto: \u0631\u0648\u069a\u0627\u0646\u0647 Rox\u030c\u0101na), sometimes Roxanne and Roxane, was a Bactrian princess and a wife of Alexander the Great. She was born earlier than the year 343\u00a0BC, though the precise date remains uncertain.\nRoxana was the daughter of a Bactrian named Oxyartes of Balkh in Bactria (around modern-day Balkh province of Afghanistan), and married Alexander at the age of 16 after he visited the fortress of Sogdian Rock. Balkh was the last of the Persian Empire's provinces to fall to Alexander. Ancient sources describe Alexander's professed love for Roxana. She accompanied him on his campaign in Pakistan and northern India in 326\u00a0BC.\nAfter Alexander's sudden death at Babylon in 323\u00a0BC, she bore him a posthumous son called Alexander\u00a0IV Aegus. Also, after Alexander's death, Roxana murdered Alexander's other widow, Stateira\u00a0II, as well as either Stateira's sister Drypteis or Parysatis\u00a0II (Alexander's third wife)....","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/roxana\/","name":"Roxana","slug":"roxana","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/23519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=23519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}