Amyntas
Native name
Ἀμύντας
Bornc. 355 BC
Diedc. 330 BC (aged c. 25)
Allegiance Macedonia
Years of service334 BC
Battles/warsBattle of the Granicus

Amyntas (Greek: Ἀμύντας; died 330 BC) was a Macedonian officer in Alexander the Great's army, son of Andromenes from Tymphaia.[1] After the Battle of the Granicus, when the garrison of Sardis was quietly surrendered to Alexander, Amyntas was the officer sent forward to receive it from the commander, Mithrenes.[2] Two years later, in 332 BC, we again hear of him as being sent into Macedonia to collect levies, while Alexander after the Siege of Gaza advanced to Egypt; and he returned with them in the ensuing year, when the king was in possession of Susa.[3]

After the execution of Philotas on a charge of treason in 330 BC, Amyntas and two other sons of Andromenes (Attalus and Simmias) were arrested on suspicion of having been engaged in the plot. The suspicion was strengthened by their known intimacy with Philotas, and by the fact that their brother Polemon had fled from the camp when the latter was apprehended,[4] or according to Curtius,[5] when he was given up to the torture. Amyntas defended himself and his brothers ably,[5] and their innocence being further established by Polemon's reappearance,[6] they were acquitted. Some little time after, Amyntas was killed by an arrow at the siege of a village.[4] It is doubtful whether the son of Andromenes is the Amyntas mentioned by Curtius[7] as commander of a portion of the Macedonian troops at the Battle of Issus in 333 BC; or again, the person spoken of as leading a brigade at the forcing of the Cilician Gates in 331 BC.[8] But Amyntas was a common name among the Macedonians.[9]

References

Notes

  1. ^ Diodorus, Bibliotheca, xvii. 45; Curtius, Historiae Alexandri Magni, v. 1; Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, iii. 27
  2. ^ Arrian, i. 17
  3. ^ Arrian, iii. 11, 16; Curtius, iv. 6, v. 1, vii. 1
  4. ^ a b Arrian, iii. 27
  5. ^ a b Curtius, vii. 1
  6. ^ Curtius, vii. 2; Arrian, iii. 27
  7. ^ Curtius, iii. 9
  8. ^ Curtius, v. 4
  9. ^ Curtius, iv. 13, v. 2, viii. 2, vi. 7, 9

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. ((cite encyclopedia)): Missing or empty |title= (help)

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