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Drypetis
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thumb|300px|The marriages of Stateira II to Alexander III of [[Macedon and her sister, Drypetis, to Hephaestion at Susa in 324 BC, as depicted in a late-19th-century engraving]]
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Achaemenid Empire
- Place of death
- Susa
- Spouse
- Hephaestion
- Father
- Darius III
- Mother
- Stateira
- Sibling
- Stateira
- Family
- Achaemenid dynasty
- Noble title
- princess
- Image
- The Family of Darius before Alexander by Paolo Veronese 1570 fragment.jpg
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- date of death
- 0323-01-01
- date of birth
- 0340-00-00
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Capture and marriage
- Death
- Portrayals of Drypetis in fiction
- Notes
- References
- Ancient sources
- Modern sources
- External links
thumb|300px|The marriages of Stateira II to Alexander III of [[Macedon and her sister, Drypetis, to Hephaestion at Susa in 324 BC, as depicted in a late-19th-century engraving]]
Drypetis (; died 323 BCE) was the daughter of Stateira I and Darius III of Persia. Drypetis was born between 350 and 345 BCE, and, along with her sister Stateira II, was a princess of the Achaemenid dynasty.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Drypetis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.