Bubares
Family: Persian · Role: commander of those who were searching for the men who had been killed · First appears: Book 5 · §20–28
Life events
- Alexander stopped the Persian search by giving Bubares money and his sister Gygaia.(Book 5 · §20–28)
- With: Alexander (son of Amyntas) Gygaia
- “Afterwards in no long time a great search was made by the Persians for these men, and Alexander stopped them with cunning by giving large sums of money and his own sister, whose name was Gygaia;--by giving, I say, these things to Bubares a Persian, commander of those who were searching for the men who had been killed, Alexander stopped their search.”
- Xerxes ordered a channel dug through Athos, with Bubares and Artachaies overseeing the work.(Book 7 · §20–28 · 📍 Athos)
- With: Xerxes Artachaies
- “Bubares the son of Megabazos and Artachaies the son of Artaios, Persians both, were set over the work.”
Book 5 · §20–28
- with Alexander (son of Amyntas) (Alexander bribed Bubares to stop the search.) “by giving large sums of money and his own sister, whose name was Gygaia;--by giving, I say, these things to Bubares a Persian, commander of those who were searching for the men who had been killed, Alexander stopped their search.”
Book 7 · §20–28
- parent: Megabazos “Bubares the son of Megabazos and Artachaies the son of Artaios, Persians both, were set over the work.”
Book 8 · §130–136
- married with Gygaia (Gygaia was married to Bubares.) “Gygaia the sister of Alexander and daughter of Amyntas had been married to a Persian Bubares”
- with Amyntas (son of Gygaia) (Bubares is the father.) “and from her had been born to him that Amyntas who lived in Asia”
- child: Amyntas (son of Gygaia) “from her had been born to him that Amyntas who lived in Asia”
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