HEPHAESTION, a Macedonian general, celebrated as the friend of Alexander the Great, who called Hephaestion his Patro clus. In the later campaigns in Bactria and India, he superintended the founding of cities and colonies, and built the fleet intended to sail down the Indus. He was rewarded with a golden crown and the hand of Drypetis, the sister of Alexander's wife Stateira B.O. In the same year he died suddenly at Ecbatana. Mourning was ordered throughout Asia; at Babylon a funeral pile was erected and temples were built in his honour (see ALEX