The Susa Weddings from Alexander the Great by Panayoti Karousos

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The Susa Weddings from Alexander the Great by Panayoti Karousos

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ALEXANDER THE GREAT BY PANAYOTI KAROUSOS The marriages at Susa EAST COAST PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY GRANT GILMAN Alexander the Great - Byron Singelton, tenor Queen Olympias - Elspeth Davis, mezzo King Philip II of Macedon: Nathan Baer Bass Roxana: Mary Mackenzie, soprano THE CAROLINA THEATER Greensboro, NC, USA, 2009 The Susa Weddings was a mass wedding arranged by Alexander of Macedon in 324 BC in the Persian city of Susa. Alexander himself married Stateira, the eldest daughter of Darius, and Parysatis, the youngest daughter of Ochus. To Hephaestion he gave Drypetis; she too was the daughter of Darius, his own wife's sister, for he wanted Hephaestion's children to be his own nephews and nieces. To Seleucus he gave the daughter of Spitamenes the Bactrian, and likewise to the other Companions the daughters of the most notable Medes and Persians, eighty in all. The weddings were solemnized in the Persian fashion: chairs were placed for the bridegrooms in order of precedence; after the toasts the brides entered and sat down each by her groom, who took them by the hand and kissed them. The king was the first to be married, for all the weddings were celebrated in the same manner, and in this ceremony he showed even more than his customary approachability and comradeship. Then the bridegrooms took their wives back to their homes and Alexander gave each of them a dowry. All the other Macedonians who had previously married Asiatic women he ordered to be registered and these were found to number more than 10,000. To all of these Alexander gave wedding-presents.

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Prometheus2013

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ALEXANDER THE GREAT, PANAYOTI KAROUSOS,