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[[File:Coin of Amyntas III-161113.jpg|thumb|240x240px|Coin of [[Amyntas III of Macedon]]. Greek inscription reads {{lang|grc|ΑΜΥΝΤΑ}}, {{Lit|[coin] of Amyntas}}]]
'''Amyntas''' ({{Langx|grc|Ἀμύντας}}) is a male given name, a variation of {{Lang|grc|ἀμύντης}} (''amyntes''),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ἀμύντας - Greek Word Study Tool |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=*%29amu%2Fnta&la=greek&can=*%29amu%2Fnta0&prior=qrasu/mhdes&d=Perseus:text:1999.04.0072:entry=*)amu/ntas&i=1 |access-date=28 February 2024 |website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref><ref>{{LSJ|a)mu/nths|ἀμύντης|ref}}.</ref> derived from the {{langx|grc|ἀμύντωρ}} (''amyntor'') {{gloss|defender, helper}}<ref>{{LSJ|a)mu/ntwr|ἀμύντωρ|ref}}.</ref> and ultimately from the verb {{lang|grc|ἀμύνω}} {{Gloss|to ward off, to defend}}.<ref>{{LSJ|a)mu/nw|ἀμύνω|ref}}.</ref> It was particularly widespread in [[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|ancient Macedon]], and was given to several prominent [[Ancient Macedonians|ancient Macedonian]] and [[Hellenistic period|Hellenistic]] figures. It later became a stock name for lovelorn shepherds in 16th-century pastoral literature.<ref name="A Companion to Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance - Sukanta Chaudhuri - Google Books">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I3O5DwAAQBAJ&dq=amyntas+shepherd&pg=PP35|title=A Companion to Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance|author=Chaudhuri, Sukanta|year=2018|page=35|isbn=9781526127006 }}</ref>
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==Kings of Macedon==
*[[Amyntas I of Macedon]], king of Macedon (c. 540&ndash;498 BC)
*[[Amyntas II of Macedon]], king of Macedon
*[[Amyntas III of Macedon]], king of Macedon (393&ndash;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 (son of Amyntas)|Philip]]
*Amyntas, father of [[Philip (first husband of Berenice I of Egypt)|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&ndash;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 [[Amphiareion of Oropos|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''<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yVMJAAAAQAAJ&q=amyntas+tasso|title=Amyntas, a Tale of the Woods|author=Tasso, Torquato|year=1820 }}</ref>
*Amyntas, the title shepherd in [[Thomas Watson (poet)|Thomas Watson]]'s Latin [[eclogue]] cycle ''Amyntas''<ref name="A Companion to Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance - Sukanta Chaudhuri - Google Books" />
*Amyntas, the title shepherd in [[Thomas Randolph (poet)|Thomas Randolph]]'s play ''Amyntas, or The Impossible Dowry''<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924013134030/page/n255/mode/2up|title=Amyntas, or The Impossible Dowry|author=Randolph, Thomas|editor=Parry, John Jay}}</ref>
*Amyntas, a shepherd in love with Cloris in [[Samuel Daniel]]'s play ''The Queene's Arcadia''<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yM_QAAAAMAAJ&dq=amyntas+samuel+daniel&pg=PA253|title=Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama|author=Greg, Walter Wilson|year=1906|page=253}}</ref>
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