Editing Alexander the Great (section)

===Personal relationships===
{{Main |Personal relationships of Alexander the Great}}
[[File:Marriage of Alexander and Statira as Ares and Aphrodite, fresco, ca. 69 d. C., copy after Aetion. Antiquarim, Pompeii.jpg|thumb|A mural in [[Pompeii]], depicting the marriage of Alexander to [[Stateira (wife of Alexander the Great)|Stateira]] in 324 BC; the couple is apparently dressed as [[Ares]] and [[Aphrodite]].]]
Alexander married three times: [[Roxana]], daughter of the [[Sogdia]]n nobleman [[Oxyartes]] of [[Bactria]],<ref>Ahmed, S. Z. (2004), ''Chaghatai: the Fabulous Cities and People of the Silk Road'', West Conshokoken: Infinity Publishing, p. 61.</ref><ref>Strachan, Edward and Roy Bolton (2008), ''Russia and Europe in the Nineteenth Century'', London: Sphinx Fine Art, p. 87, {{ISBN|978-1-907200-02-1}}.</ref><ref>Livius.org. "[https://www.livius.org/articles/person/roxane/ Roxane] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414100829/https://www.livius.org/articles/person/roxane/ |date=14 April 2021}}." ''Articles on Ancient History''. Retrieved on 30 August 2016.</ref> out of love;{{Sfn|Plutarch|1919|loc= [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0243%3Achapter%3D47 LXVII, 1]}} and the Persian princesses [[Stateira (wife of Alexander the Great)|Stateira]] and [[Parysatis II|Parysatis]], the former a daughter of [[Darius III]] and the latter a daughter of [[Artaxerxes III]], for political reasons.<ref name="Carney">{{cite book |last=Carney |first=Elizabeth Donnelly |title=Women and Monarchy in Macedonia |date=2000 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |location=Norman |isbn=978-0-8061-3212-9}}</ref>{{Sfn |Plutarch|1936|loc= [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Fortuna_Alexandri*/2.html II, 6]}} Alexander apparently had two children by Roxana: an unnamed first child, who was born in India and died in infancy in November 326 BC,<ref>Metz Epitome 70

</ref> and [[Alexander IV of Macedon]], born after his father's death. Additionally [[Heracles of Macedon]] was claimed to be his illegitimate son born of mistress, [[Barsine]]. 

Alexander also had a close relationship with his friend, general, and bodyguard [[Hephaestion]], the son of a Macedonian noble.<ref name="AVII14" />{{sfn|Green|2007|pp=15–16}}<ref name="DSXVII114" /> Hephaestion's death devastated Alexander.<ref name="AVII14" /><ref name="P72" /> This event may have contributed to Alexander's failing health and detached [[mental health|mental state]] during his final months.{{sfn|Green|2007|pp=23–24}}<ref name="AMD" />