Amyntas (son of Andromenes)

Amyntas (in Greek Aμυντας; died 330 BC) was a Macedonian officer in Alexander the Great's army, son of Andromenes from Tymphaia.rf|1|diod_17.45_curt_5.1_arr_3 After the battle of the Granicus, 334 BC, when the garrison of Sardis was quietly surrendered to Alexander, Amyntas was the officer sent forward to receive it from the commander, Mithrenes.rf|2|arr_1 Two years after, 332, 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.rf|3|arr_3_curt_4.6_5.1_7.1

After the execution of Philotas on a charge of treason, 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 apprehendedrf|4|arr_3, or according to Curtiusrf|5|curt_7.1, when he was given up to the torture. Amyntas defended himself and his brothers ablyrf|6|curt_7.1, and their innocence being further established by Polemon's reappearancerf|7|curt_7.2_arr_3, they were acquitted. Some little time after, Amyntas was killed by an arrow at the siege of a village.rf|8|arr_3 It is doubtful whether the son of Andromenes is the Amyntas mentioned by Curtiusrf|9|curt_3.9 as commander of a portion of the Macedonian troops at the battle of Issus, 333 BC; or again, the person spoken of as leading a brigade at the forcing of the Cilician Gates (now called the Gülek Pass), 331 BC.rf|10|curt_5.4 But Amyntas appears to have been a common name among the Macedonians.rf|11|curt_4.13_5.2_8.2_6.7_9

References

*Smith, William (editor); "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology", [http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0164.html "Amyntas (4)"] , Boston, (1867)

Notes

ent|1|diod_17.45_curt_5.1_arr_3 Diodorus, "Bibliotheca", [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Diod.+17.45.1 xvii. 45] ; Curtius, "Historiae Alexandri Magni", [http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/historiens/quintecurce/cinq.htm v. 1] ; Arrian, "Anabasis Alexandri", [http://websfor.org/alexander/arrian/book3b.asp iii. 27] ent|2|arr_1 Arrian, [http://websfor.org/alexander/arrian/book1b.asp i. 17] ent|3|arr_3_curt_4.6_5.1_7.1 Arrian, [http://websfor.org/alexander/arrian/book3a.asp iii. 11] , [http://websfor.org/alexander/arrian/book3b.asp 16] ; Curtius, [http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/historiens/quintecurce/quatre.htm iv. 6] , [http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/historiens/quintecurce/cinq.htm v. 1] , [http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/historiens/quintecurce/sept.htm vii. 1] ent|4|arr_3 Arrian, [http://websfor.org/alexander/arrian/book3b.asp iii. 27] ent|5|curt_7.1 Curtius, [http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/historiens/quintecurce/sept.htm vii. 1] ent|6|curt_7.1 [http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/historiens/quintecurce/sept.htm Ibid.] ent|7|curt_7.2_arr_3 Curtius, [http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/historiens/quintecurce/sept.htm vii. 2] ; Arrian, [http://websfor.org/alexander/arrian/book3b.asp iii. 27] ent|8|arr_3 Arrian, [http://websfor.org/alexander/arrian/book3b.asp ibid.] ent|9|curt_3.9 Curtius, [http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/historiens/quintecurce/trois.htm iii. 9] ent|10|curt_5.4 Ibid., [http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/historiens/quintecurce/cinq.htm v. 4] ent|11|curt_4.13_5.2_8.2_6.7_9 Ibid., [http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/historiens/quintecurce/quatre.htm iv. 13] , [http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/historiens/quintecurce/cinq.htm v. 2] , [http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/historiens/quintecurce/huit.htm viii. 2] , [http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/historiens/quintecurce/six.htm vi. 7, 9]

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