Drypetis

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Drypetis or Drypteis (d. 323 BCE), is a princess of the Achaemenid dynasty in Persia. She was the daughter of Stateira I and Darius III of Persia, and by her sister Stateira II, sister-in-law to Alexander the Great. She was the granddaughter of Sisygambis.

Drypteis was given in marriage by her grandmother to Hephaestion Amyntoros at the Susa wedding where her sister married Alexander in 324 BC.

Although not mentioned by name, she was most likely captured by Alexander at the Battle of Issus in 333 BCE along with the rest of the Persian royal family of Darius III.

She also was widowed in 324 BCE. Following the death of Alexander in 323 BCE, Drypteis and her sister Stateira II - Alexander's widow - were murdered by Alexander's other widow, Roxana (Pl. Alex. 77.4).

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• Arrian vii. 4. § 6
• Diodorus xvii. 107
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
• Drypetis, daughter of Darius and wife of Hephaestion in Pothos.org