Stateira II (died 323 BC) was a daughter of Shah Darius III of Persia and the second wife of Alexander the Great.
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Stateira was the eldest daughter of Darius III of Persia and Stateira I, and she and her family accompanied her father during his campaigns against Alexander the Great. In November 333 BC, following the Battle of Issus, Darius' family fell into Macedonian captivity, and they were treated well and allowed to retain their social status. Alexander rejected Darius' offers to ransom his family, and, in 330 BC, Alexander left Stateira and her family in Susa and had them educated in the Greek language. In 324 BC, Alexander formally married Stateira, and, during the same five-day period, 90 other Persian women were married to Alexander's companions in the "Susa weddings". Alexander died in Babylon the following year, and Roxana and Perdiccas conspired to kill Stateira to consolidate Alexander IV's accession to the throne. Stateira and her sister were both murdered on Roxana's orders.