Amyntas

Amyntas is the name of several prominent Greek and Hellenistic men. The word is derived from Greek "amyntor" meaning "defender".

Kings of Macedon

• Amyntas I, king of Macedon (c. 540–498 BC)
• Amyntas II, king of Macedon
• Amyntas III, king of Macedon (393–369 BC)
• Amyntas IV, 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, an 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