Stateira
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Stateira or Statira may refer to:
Names
Operas
Names
- Stateira (wife of Artaxerxes II)Stateira (wife of Artaxerxes II)Stateira was the wife of king Artaxerxes II of Persia.Asteroid 831 Stateira is named in her honour.- Biography :Stateira was the daughter of the Persian nobleman Hydarnes. She married Artaxerxes II, the oldest son of Darius II of Persia and his wife Parysatis...
- Stateira IStateira IStateira I was the wife of Darius III of Persia of the Achaemenid dynasty. She was known as the most beautiful woman on Earth and, as was the custom for royal Persian women, accompanied her husband while he went to war. It was because of this that she was captured by Alexander the Great after the...
, wife of Darius III of Persia - Stateira IIStateira IIStateira II , possibly also known as Barsine, was the daughter of Stateira I and Darius III of Persia. After her father's defeat at the Battle of Issus, Stateira and her sisters became captives of Alexander of Macedon. They were treated well, and she became Alexander's second wife at the Susa...
, daughter of Stateira I and Darius III of Persia
Operas
- La StatiraLa StatiraLa Statira is an opera seria in three acts by the Italian composer Tomaso Albinoni with a libretto by Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati. It was first performed at the Teatro Capranica, Rome during the Carnival season of 1726...
(1726), opera by Tomaso Albioni - Statira principessa di PersiaStatira principessa di PersiaStatira principessa di Persia is an opera - more specifically, a dramma per musica - in a prologue and three acts by Francesco Cavalli, set to a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello. The opera was first performed in Venice at the Teatro SS...
(1655), opera by Francesco Cavalli