Gygaea of Macedon

For other uses, see Gygaea (disambiguation).

Gygaea was a daughter of Amyntas I and sister of Alexander I of Macedon. She was given away in marriage by her brother to the Persian official Bubares, in order to hush up the inquiry which the latter had been sent by Darius Hystaspes to look into the fate of the Persian envoys, whom Alexander had caused to be murdered. Herodotus also mentions a son of Bubares and Gygaea, called Amyntas tyrant of the city Alabanda in Phrygia.

There is also another Gygaea, second wife of Amyntas III of Macedon, whose son Menelaus was put to death by his stepbrother Philip II in 347 BC.

References

Carney, Elizabeth Donnelly (2000), Women and monarchy in Macedonia, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, p. 46, ISBN 0-8061-3212-4 .

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