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Amyntas II (son of Bubares)
Amyntas
II
was the son of the
Persian
official
Bubares
by his
Macedonian
wife
Gygaea
. He was named after his
maternal grandfather
,
Amyntas I of Macedon
, who
ruled
Macedon
as a Persian
subject
since 512/511
BC
. Later,
king
Xerxes I
gave him the
Carian
city of
Alabanda
. Amyntas was
possibly
the
direct
successor
of the
tyrant
Aridolis
.