Bubares

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Bubares ( Greek  Βουβάρης , died after 480 BC) was a Persian nobleman and engineer in the service of the Achaemenid Empire in the 5th century BC. He was one of the sons of Megabazos .

Bubares was born around 498 BC. Sent Chr. To Macedonia to there a diplomatic conflict with King Alexandros I. settle. As Crown Prince, he was still responsible for the murder of several members of a Persian delegation a few years earlier. King Alexandros showed himself to the Persian commitment and married his sister Gygaia to Bubares. Both had a son who was named Amyntas after the maternal grandfather . This later officiated in Caria as the tyrant of the city of Alabanda .

480 BC Bubares and Artachaies were commissioned by Great King Xerxes I to build the so-called Xerxes Canal through the isthmus of the eastern foothills of the Chalkidike peninsula (near Ierissos ). Almost ten years earlier the great Persian fleet of Mardonios had been shattered there in adverse waves on Mount Athos . Another trip around this arm and thus the possibility of a repetition of this catastrophe should be avoided by means of the canal. The canal construction was one of the most complex projects of antiquity and lasted three years, workers from various peoples including the inhabitants of Athos were forcibly recruited.

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SURNAME Bubares
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Persian nobleman, engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 480 BC Chr.