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Roxana had previously inveigled Statira and her sister Drypetis to Babylon, where she caused them to be secretly assassinated. Perdiccas possessed more power than any of Alexander's generals, and he now aspired to the Macedonian throne.
It was here that he adopted various measures with the view of consolidating his empire. One of the most important was to form the Greeks and Persians into one people by means of intermarriages. He himself celebrated his nuptials with Statira the eldest daughter of Darius, and bestowed the hand of her sister, Drypetis, on Hephaestion.
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