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PIETRO VANNICELLI

Università di Roma–La Sapienza

Son of the high‐ranking Persian Megabazus, Bubares was sent to MACEDONIA in search of the seven missing Persian envoys who had been killed there (c. 515 BCE). According to Herodotus, ALEXANDER I, son of the Macedonian king Amyntas I, ensured that this search would fail by giving Bubares a large sum of MONEY and his sister GYGAEA in MARRIAGE (5.21.2). These local connections explain XERXES’ choice of Bubares as one of the supervisors (along with ARTACHAEES) of the ATHOS‐canal excavations (7.22.2). Bubares’ son Amyntas, whom Herodotus refers to as “Amyntas of Asia,” was named after his maternal grandfather and received from Xerxes “the great city of ALABANDA IN PHRYGIA” (8.136.1).

SEE ALSO: Amyntas son of Alcetas; Amyntas son of Bubares; Bribery; Canals; Megabazus the Persian; Oebares son of Megabazus