Amyntas is the name of several prominent Greek and Hellenistic men. It later became a stock name for lovelorn shepherds in 16th-century pastoral literature.
The name is derived from Greek "amyntor" meaning "defender."
Kings of Macedon
*
Amyntas I of Macedon, king of Macedon (c. 540–498 BC)
*
Amyntas II of Macedon, king of Macedon
*
Amyntas III of Macedon, king of Macedon (393–369 BC)
*
Amyntas IV of Macedon
Amyntas IV (Greek: Ἀμύντας Δ΄) was a titular king of the Greek kingdom of Macedonia in 359 BC and member of the Argead dynasty.
Biography
Amyntas was a son of King Perdiccas III of Macedon. He was born in about 365 BC.Joseph Roisman, ...
, king of Macedon (359 BC)
Military figures
*
Amyntas (son of Andromenes)
Amyntas ( el, Ἀμύντας; died 330 BC) was a Macedonian officer in Alexander the Great's army, son of Andromenes from Tymphaia. After the Battle of the Granicus, 334 BC, when the garrison of Sardis was quietly surrendered to Alexander, Amyntas ...
, general of Alexander the Great, died in 330 BC
*
Amyntas (son of Antiochus), fugitive to Persians
*
Amyntas (son of Arrhabaeus) Amyntas ( el, Ἀμύντας), son of Arrhabaeus, was hipparch of the ile of Prodromoi
In ancient Greece, the ''prodromoi'' (singular: ''prodromos'') were skirmisher light cavalry. Their name ( ancient Greek: ''πρόδρομοι'', ''prοdrom ...
, hipparchos
*
Amyntas (son of Alexander)
*Amyntas, father of taxiarch
Philip
*Amyntas, father of
Philip and first father-in-law of
Berenice I of Egypt
*
Amyntas (Antigonid general), died in Cappadocia 301 BC
*
Amyntas of Rhodes, admiral against Demetrius Poliorcetes
*
Amyntas of Pieria, 2nd Thessalian praetor 194 BC
*
Amyntas of Mieza, somatophylax of Philip III Arrhidaeus
*
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 Macedonia as a Persian subject since 512/511 BC. Later, king Xerxes I (r. 486-46 ...
, Persian ruler of Alabanda
Hellenistic kings
*
Amyntas Nikator
Amyntas Nicator ( grc, Ἀμύντας Νικάτωρ, Amyntas Nikatōr; epithet means "the Conqueror") was an Indo-Greek king. His coins have been found both in eastern Punjab and Afghanistan, indicating that he ruled a considerable territory ...
, Indo-Greek king who ruled in parts of the northern Indian subcontinent between 95 and 90 BC
*
Amyntas of Galatia
Amyntas ( grc, Ἀμύντας), Tetrarch of the Trocmi was a King of Galatia and of several adjacent countries between 36 and 25 BC, mentioned by StraboStrabo, ''Geographia'', xii as contemporary with himself. He was the son of Brogitarus, kin ...
, tetrarch of the Trocmi and king of Galatia (37–25 BC)
*
Amyntas, Tetrarch of the Tectosagii, king of Cilicia Trachae between 36 BC and 25 BC
Writers
*
Amyntas of Heraclea, mathematician; student of Plato
*
Amyntas (bematist), wrote ''Stathmoi''
*Amyntas the surgeon
Athletes
*Amyntas of Aeolia in diaulos
*Amyntas of Ephesus, pankratiast
*
Amyntas (son of Menophilos), Aiolian, winner of the horse race at the
Greater Amphiareia, beginning of the first century
Fictional shepherds
*Amyntas, the title shepherd in
Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso ( , also , ; 11 March 154425 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem ''Gerusalemme liberata'' ( Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between ...
's play
Aminta
''Aminta'' is a play written by Torquato Tasso in 1573, represented during a garden party at the court of Ferrara. Both the actors and the public were noble persons living at the Court, who could understand subtle allusions the poet made to that ...
, translated into English by
Leigh Hunt
James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 178428 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet.
Hunt co-founded '' The Examiner'', a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles. He was the centre ...
as ''Amyntas, a Tale of the Woods''
*Amyntas, the title shepherd in
Thomas Watson's Latin
eclogue
An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject. Poems in the genre are sometimes also called bucolics.
Overview
The form of the word ''eclogue'' in contemporary English developed from Middle English , which came from Latin , wh ...
cycle ''Amyntas''
*Amyntas, the title shepherd in
Thomas Randolph's play ''Amyntas, or The Impossible Dowry''
*Amyntas, a shepherd in love with Cloris in
Samuel Daniel
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) was an English poet, playwright and historian in the late- Elizabethan and early- Jacobean eras. He was an innovator in a wide range of literary genres. His best-known works are the sonnet cycle ''Delia'', the epi ...
's play ''The Queene's Arcadia''
References
{{given name