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'''Barsine''' (in [[Greek language|Greek]] '''Βαρσίνη'''; born [[363 BC|363?]]–died [[309 BC]]) was daughter of Artabazus, satrap of Phrygia and wife of [[Mentor of Rhodes|Mentor]] of [[Rhodes]] and after his death, Mentor's brother, [[Memnon of Rhodes|Memnon]]. In [[334 BC]], the year of [[Alexander the Great|Alexander]]'s invasion of Asia, she and her children were sent by Memnon to the king [[Darius III]] as hostages for his fidelity; and in the ensuing year, when Damascus fell to the [[Macedon]]ians, she fell into the hands of Alexander, by whom she became the mother of [[Heracles (Macedon)|Heracles]]. On Alexander's death, [[323 BC]], a claim to the throne on this boy's behalf was unsuccessfully urged by [[Nearchus]]. From a comparison of the accounts of [[Diodorus Siculus|Diodorus]] and [[Junianus Justinus|Justin]], it appears that he was brought up at [[Pergamum]] under his mother's care, and that she shared his fate when ([[309 BC]]) [[Polyperchon]] was induced by [[Cassander]] to murder him.

==References==
*Smith, William (editor); ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', [http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0473.html "Barsine (1)"], Boston, (1867)

==Notes==
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1867).

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Irlandos: New page: '''Barsine''' (in Greek '''Βαρσίνη'''; born 363?–died 309 BC) was daughter of Artabazus, satrap of Phrygia and wife of [[Mentor of Rhodes|Men...