the daughter of Oxvartes, a Bactrian prince, became the queen of Alexander the Great about 327 B.C. She had not long enjoyed her high dignity before misfortunes began to gather round her. Her husband died before her child was born. The fear lest her progeny should be deprived of its paternal rights changed her nature into that of a tigress. She could not rest until she had decoyed her rival Barsine to Babylon and murdered her. Even when her son had been acknowledged heir to his father's kingdom, there was no peace for her. In the struggles which ensued between the several potentates in the Alexandrian empire, she and her boy were tossed about from the custody of one to that of another. At length they became involved in the fortunes of the ambitious Olympias, and their fate was sealed. Cassander captured them in Pydna in 316 B.C. They were degraded from their royal dignity, and consigned to the citadel of Amphipolis. After languishing there for five years, they were secretly murdered by their keeper Glaucias in 311 B.C.