At Susa Alexander held a feast to rejoice the seizure from the Persian empire, at which, in furtherance of his plan of fusing Macedonians and Persians into a single grasp race, he and 80 of his officers took Persian wives; he and Hephaestion married Darius’s daughters Barsine (also known as Stateira) and Drypetis, respectively, and 10,000 of his