Amyntas
Amyntas (Ancient Greek: Ἀμύντας) is a male given name, a variation of ἀμύντης (amyntes),[1][2] derived from Greek: ἀμύντωρ (amyntor, 'defender, helper'),[3] and ultimately from 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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'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]
References
- "Ἀμύντας - Greek Word Study Tool". www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
- 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.
- Chaudhuri, Sukanta (2018). A Companion to Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance. p. 35. ISBN 9781526127006.
- Tasso, Torquato (1820). Amyntas, a Tale of the Woods.
- Randolph, Thomas. Parry, John Jay (ed.). Amyntas, or The Impossible Dowry.
- Greg, Walter Wilson (1906). Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama. p. 253.
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