Drypetis

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Drypetis († 323 BC ) was a Persian princess from the Achaemenid dynasty and the wife of Hephaistion , a very close friend of Alexander the Great .

Drypetis was a daughter of Stateira and the Persian great king Dareios III. , who was overcome by Alexander the Great and finally 330 BC. Was murdered by a nobility group around the satrap Bessos . Already after the Battle of Issus (November 333 BC) Darius' entire family, including Drypetis, fell into the hands of the Macedonian king. In order to establish family ties with the Achaemenids, Alexander married in 324 BC. At the mass wedding of Susa and others Drypetis' older sister Stateira . He gave Drypetis to his friend Hephaistion, with whom he wanted to be related by marriage. However, Hephaistion died in the winter of 324/323 BC. Not long after that, in June 323 BC. The great Macedonian king died in Babylon . Drypetis mourned his death. Roxane , Alexander's first wife, now out of jealousy had Stateira and - as the ancient Alexander biographer Plutarch put it - their sister, who must be Drypetis, murdered and the bodies of both sisters thrown into a well, which was then filled up has been.

literature

Web links

  • Drypetis, daughter of Darius and wife of Hephaestion at Pothos.org

Remarks

  1. ↑ Arrian , Anabasis 7, 4, 4; Diodor , Bibliothéke historiké 17, 107, 6; among others
  2. ↑ Arrian, Anabasis 7, 4, 5; Diodor, Bibliothéke historiké 17, 107, 6.
  3. ^ Curtius Rufus , Historia Alexandri Magni Macedonis 10, 5, 20.
  4. ↑ Plutarch, Alexander 77, 6.
personal data
SURNAME Drypetis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife of Hephaestion, a friend of Alexander the Great
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 323 BC Chr.