Amyntas

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Amyntas is the name of several prominent Greek and Hellenistic men.

Contents 1 Kings of Macedon 2 Generals 3 Hellenistic kings 4 Writers 5 Athletes 6 References

[edit] 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, king of Macedon (359 BC)

[edit] Generals

• 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 (Antigonid general) died in Cappadocia 301 BC
• Amyntas of Rhodes admiral against Demetrius Poliorcetes
• Amyntas of Pieria 2nd Thessalian praetor 194 BC^[1]
• Amyntas (son of Bubares) tyrant of Alabanda^[2]

[edit] Hellenistic kings

• Amyntas Nikator, an Indo-Greek king who ruled in parts of the northern Indian subcontinent between 95 and 90 BC.
• Amyntas of Galatia, king of Galatia (37–25 BC)
• Amyntas, Tetrarch of the Tectosagii, king of Cilicia Trachae

[edit] Writers

• Amyntas of Heraclea mathematician student of Plato
• Amyntas (bematist) wrote Stathmoi
• Amyntas the surgeon

[edit] Athletes

• Amyntas of Aeolia in diaulos
• Amyntas of Ephesus pankratiast

[edit] References

• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
• Who's who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander's Empire Page 27 By Waldemar Heckel