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See also:ROXANA, or ROXANE , daughter of the Bactrian See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king Oxyartes, and wife of See also:Alexander the See also:Great. After the latter's See also:death she gave See also:birth at See also:Babylon to a son (Alexander IV.), who was accepted by the generals as See also:joint-king with Arrhidaeus. Having crossed over to See also:Macedonia, and thrown in her See also:lot with See also:Olympias, See also:mother of Alexander the Great, she was imprisoned by See also:Cassander in the fortress of See also:Amphipolis and put to death (310 or 309 B.c.). The See also:marriage of Alexander and Roxana was the subject of a famous See also:painting by See also:Aetion.
See See also:Plutarch, Alexander, 47, 77; See also:Arrian, Anab. iv. 18, vii. 27; Diod. Sic. xviii. 3, 38, xix. II, 52, 105; See also:Strabo xi. p. 517, xvii. P. 794.
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