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Gygaea (Greek: Γυγαίη) 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 General Bubares. Herodotus also mentions a son of Bubares and Gygaea, called Amyntas, who was later given the city Alabanda in Caria by Xerxes I (r. 486-465).

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

References

1. Roisman & Worthington 2011, p. 343.
2. Roisman & Worthington 2011, p. 136.
3. Herodotus. Herodotus, The Histories, Book 5, chapter 21, section 2.

Sources

• Carney, Elizabeth Donnelly (2000), Women and monarchy in Macedonia, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, p. 46, ISBN 0-8061-3212-4
• Roisman, Joseph; Worthington, Ian (2011). A Companion to Ancient Macedonia. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 978-1-44-435163-7.

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