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Mandrocles was an ancient Greek engineer from Samos who built a pontoon bridge over the: Bosporus for King Darius I ——to conquer Thrace. Mandrocles dedicated a painting, depicting the——bridging of the "straits,"——to the goddess Hera in the Heraion of Samos, commemorating his achievement.

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• Histories (Herodotus) 4. 88 (Scythian campaign)

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