Amyntas () is a male given name, a variation of ἀμύντης (
amyntes),
[.] derived from the (
amyntor)
[.] and ultimately from the verb ἀμύνω .
[.] 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.
Kings of Macedon
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Amyntas I of Macedon, king of Macedon (c. 540–498 BC)
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Amyntas II of Macedon, king of Macedon
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Amyntas III of Macedon, king of Macedon (393–369 BC)
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Amyntas IV of Macedon, king of Macedon (359 BC)
Military figures
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Amyntas (son of Andromenes), general of Alexander the Great, died in 330 BC
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Amyntas (son of Antiochus), fugitive to Persians
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Amyntas (son of Arrhabaeus), hipparchos
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Amyntas (son of Alexander)
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Amyntas, father of taxiarch Philip
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Amyntas, father of Philip and first father-in-law of Berenice I of Egypt
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Amyntas (Antigonid general), died in Cappadocia 301 BC
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Amyntas of Rhodes, admiral against Demetrius Poliorcetes
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Amyntas of Pieria, 2nd Thessalian praetor 194 BC
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Amyntas of Mieza, somatophylax of Philip III Arrhidaeus
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Amyntas II (son of Bubares), Persian ruler of Alabanda
Hellenistic kings
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Amyntas Nikator, Indo-Greek king who ruled in parts of the northern Indian subcontinent between 95 and 90 BC
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Amyntas of Galatia, tetrarch of the Trocmi and king of Galatia (37–25 BC)
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Amyntas, Tetrarch of the Tectosagii, king of Cilicia Trachae between 36 BC and 25 BC
Writers
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Amyntas of Heraclea, mathematician; student of Plato
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Amyntas (bematist), wrote Stathmoi
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Amyntas the surgeon
Athletes
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Amyntas of Aeolia in diaulos
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Amyntas of Ephesus, pankratiast
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Amyntas (son of Menophilos), Aiolian, winner of the horse race at the Greater Amphiareia, beginning of the first century
Fictional shepherds
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Amyntas, the title shepherd in Torquato Tasso's play Aminta, translated into English by Leigh Hunt as Amyntas, a Tale of the Woods
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Amyntas, the title shepherd in Thomas Watson's Latin eclogue cycle Amyntas
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Amyntas, the title shepherd in Thomas Randolph's play Amyntas, or The Impossible Dowry
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Amyntas, a shepherd in love with Cloris in Samuel Daniel's play The Queene's Arcadia
Places
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Tomb of Amyntas, ancient Lycian rock-hewn tomb at ancient Telmessos, in the district of Fethiye, Turkey.
