Amyntas is the name of several prominent Macedonian and Hellenistic men. It later became a stock name for lovelorn shepherds in 16th-century pastoral literature.[1] The name is derived from Greek "amyntor" meaning "defender."

Kings of Macedon

Military figures

Hellenistic kings

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

References

  1. 1 2 Chaudhuri, Sukanta (2018). A Companion to Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance. p. 35. ISBN 9781526127006.
  2. Tasso, Torquato (1820). Amyntas, a Tale of the Woods.
  3. Randolph, Thomas. Parry, John Jay (ed.). Amyntas, or The Impossible Dowry.
  4. Greg, Walter Wilson (1906). Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama. p. 253.
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