ABSTRACT
Several events in Alexander's reign involving non-Macedonians and Greeks have sometimes been cobbled together and viewed as something akin to a ‘policy’ of the fusion of races or brotherhood of mankind. Actions and events which have been singled out in particular are Alexander's integration of foreigners into his army and administration, his marriage to Roxanne of Bactria in 327, the attempt in 327 to introduce proskynesis (genuflection) at Bactra (see Sources 94 and 95),1 the mass marriage in 324 at Susa (see Sources 96 and 97), at which Alexander and 91 of his court married Persian noble women (Alexander taking two wives) in a Persian ceremony which lasted for five days,2 and the banquet of reconciliation and prayer for concord amongst the races (Arr. 7.11.9) after the mutiny at Opis in 324.3
