thumb|Bubares was son of Megabazus. thumb|right|Bubares built the Xerxes Canal for the passage of the [[Second Persian invasion of Greece. Mount Athos peninsula from the stratosphere (at an altitude of 23 km), and simulation of the Xerxes Canal (seen from north).]] thumb|Northern end of the Xerxes Canal, now filled up. Bubares (, died after 480 BC) was a Persian nobleman and engineer in the service of the Achaemenid Empire of the 5th century BC. He was one of the sons of Megabazus, and a second-degree cousin of Xerxes I.
thumb|Bubares was son of Megabazus. thumb|right|Bubares built the Xerxes Canal for the passage of the [[Second Persian invasion of Greece. Mount Athos peninsula from the stratosphere (at an altitude of 23 km), and simulation of the Xerxes Canal (seen from north).]] thumb|Northern end of the Xerxes Canal, now filled up. Bubares (, died after 480 BC) was a Persian nobleman and engineer in the service of the Achaemenid Empire of the 5th century BC. He was one of the sons of Megabazus, and a second-degree cousin of Xerxes I.
==Marriage to the sister of Alexander I of Macedon== Bubares was sent to Macedonia in order to settle a diplomatic conflict with King Alexander I. Alexander had been held responsible (as crown prince) for the murder of several members of a Persian delegation a few years earlier. The Persians had taken liberties with the Macedonian women of the Palace, and therefore had all been killed with their assistants by the king Alexander and his men. General Bubares was sent with a contingent of troops to investigate the matter. Alexander resolved the situation by surrendering a large sum of money and marrying his sister Gygaia to Bubares:
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