Drypetis

Drypetis († 323 BC) was one of the Achaemenid dynasty of the Persian princess that were found and the wife of Hephaestion, a very close friend of Alexander the Great.

Drypetis was a daughter of Stateira and the Persian Great King Darius III. , Which was conquered by Alexander the Great and eventually murdered 330 BC by a group of nobles to the satrap Bessus. Already after the battle of Issus ( November 333 BC) was Darius ' entire family, including Drypetis, fallen into the hands of the Macedonians king. In order to establish family ties with the Achaemenids, Alexander married in 324 BC on the mass wedding at Susa, among others Drypetis ' older sister Stateira. His friend Hephaestion, with whom he wanted to intermarry, he gave Drypetis to wife. However, Hephaestion died in the winter of 324/323 BC Not long after, in June 323 BC, also the great wide Macedon king in Babylon. Drypetis lamented his death. Roxane, the first wife of Alexander, was now out of jealousy Stateira and - as the ancient Alexander biographer Plutarch expresses - whose sister, in which it must assassinate involve Drypetis, and throw the bodies of the two sisters in a well which then filled been.