Talk:Stateira (wife of Alexander the Great)

Portrait request
A portrait that is specifically of Stateira II instead of a group scene would be good in improving the article. Asarelah (talk) 12:30, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Untitled
I changed most of the BCE's to BC's since I noted that they were not standardized in the article and the earliest notation in the article was a B.C. also changed a couple of them which looked to be typo's. It seems that there were more BCE's than BC's in the article so perhaps I should have done it the other way. Jamhaw (talk) 21:06, 3 February 2010 (UTC)Jamhaw

Stateira II & Barsine
"Stateira II ... possibly also known as Barsine, was the daughter of Stateira I and Darius III of Persia. "

There was another Barsine in the same period who had contacts with Alexander. It should be clarified to avoid confusion. The 'real' Barsine was the daughter of a Persian nobleman named Artabazus, the satrap of Phrygia, in modern day Turkey, which was at the time part of the Persian Empire. Barsine married more than once, her first marriage was to Mentor a Greek mercenary leader who worked for Persians and had close ties to Barsine's father. Jay — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.255.40.219 (talk) 22:38, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Roman numerals
Where are the Roman numerals coming from for the titles of this article and Stateira's mother, as well as her cousin Parysatis (though not, weirdly enough, the article for the earlier Parysatis)? I've not seen them in anything I've read, though my reading hasn't necessarily been comprehensive. They're presumably not from any ancient sources, as the ancients didn't number monarchs in that way (and none of these women were monarchs anyway, so modern convention wouldn't give them regnal numbers either). A check through the foreign-language Wikipedias indicates that those in alphabets I can read (which unfortunately doesn't include Farsi) don't use any numbers. Are these numbers that modern historians actually use, and therefore appropriate to include, or are they something added by Wikipedia editors, and therefore should be removed? Binabik80 (talk) 16:00, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Books I've found about Alexander just refer to her and her mother as "Stateira", without numerals. The web is replete with hits for "Stateira II" ... and every single one, as far as I can tell, is a copy of Wikipedia content. Those sites that have their own entries for her, such as Encyclopaedia Britannica, just call her Stateira. I am moving this page to Stateira (wife of Alexander the Great) and Stateira I to Stateira (wife of Darius III).