Amyntas

Amyntas ( Greek Ἀμύντας ; ion. Ἀμύντης; Latin Amyntas ) was an ancient , male personal name. It was mostly used in Macedonia .

Four kings of Macedonia

• Amyntas I (540–495 BC)
• Amyntas II , "the little one" (394/393 BC)
• Amyntas III. (394 / 393-370 BC)
• Amyntas IV. (359–336 BC), son of Perdiccas III.

Other famous namesake

• Amyntas (son of Bubares) , son of Bubares and Gygaia, daughter of Amyntas I. He was the Persian governor of Alabanda in Caria .
• Amyntas (son of Andromenes) , an officer of Alexander the Great
• Amyntas (son of Nikolaos) , an officer of Alexander the Great
• Amyntas (son of Antiochus) , a Macedonian nobleman
• Amyntas (son of Arrhabaios) , a Macedonian general
• Amyntas (Bematist) , a path meter (Bematist) during the Alexanderzug
• Amyntas , son of Hermagios, was born in the 4th century BC. Buried in the so-called Amyntas tomb in Fethiye
• Amyntas , an Olympic champion around 156 BC. BC (156th Olympiad) in boys' pankration
• Amyntas , a general of the Galatian king Deiotarus , then the last king of Galatia (36-25 BC)
• Amyntas (Indo-Greek king) , an Indo-Greek king
• Amyntas , a surgeon who is very likely identical to Amentes
• Amyntas (Koroplast) , a Greek Koroplast from Myrina, active at the end of the 1st century BC. And beginning of the 1st century AD
• Order names of two members of the Pegnese Flower Order in the 17th century

Others

• Amyntas (Goethe) , title of a poem written in 1797 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Amyntas Kinberg 1866, alternative (second) spelling in the first description and thus a synonym of Amynthas Kinberg 1866, a genus of little bristles from the Megascolecidae family (giant earthworms)