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Amyntas (Ancient Greek: Ἀμύντας) is a male given name, a variation of ἀμύντης (amyntes),[1][2] derived from the Ancient Greek: ἀμύντωρ (amyntor) 'defender, helper'[3] and ultimately from the verb ἀμύνω 'to ward off, to defend'.[4] It was particularly widespread in ancient Macedon, and was given to several prominent ancient Macedonian and Hellenistic figures. It later became a stock name for lovelorn shepherds in 16th-century pastoral literature.[5]
Kings of Macedon
[edit | edit source]- 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, king of Macedon (359 BC)
Military figures
[edit | edit source]- Amyntas (son of Andromenes), general of Alexander the Great, died in 330 BC
- Amyntas (son of Antiochus), fugitive to Persians
- Amyntas (son of Arrhabaeus), 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), Persian ruler of Alabanda
Hellenistic kings
[edit | edit source]- Amyntas Nikator, Indo-Greek king who ruled in parts of the northern Indian subcontinent between 95 and 90 BC
- Amyntas of Galatia, 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
[edit | edit source]- Amyntas of Heraclea, mathematician; student of Plato
- Amyntas (bematist), wrote Stathmoi
- Amyntas the surgeon
Athletes
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]- Amyntas, the title shepherd in Torquato Tasso's play Aminta, translated into English by Leigh Hunt as Amyntas, a Tale of the Woods[6]
- Amyntas, the title shepherd in Thomas Watson's Latin eclogue cycle Amyntas[5]
- Amyntas, the title shepherd in Thomas Randolph's play Amyntas, or The Impossible Dowry[7]
- Amyntas, a shepherd in love with Cloris in Samuel Daniel's play The Queene's Arcadia[8]
Places
[edit | edit source]- Tomb of Amyntas, ancient Lycian rock-hewn tomb at ancient Telmessos, in the district of Fethiye, Turkey.
References
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- ^ ἀμύντης. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
- ^ ἀμύντωρ. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
- ^ ἀμύνω. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
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