Amyntas ( el, Ἀμύντας; died 330 BC) was a

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ian officer in

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's army, son of Andromenes from Tymphaia. After the

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, 334 BC, when the garrison of

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was quietly surrendered to Alexander, Amyntas was the officer sent forward to receive it from the commander,

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. 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

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; and he returned with them in the ensuing year, when the king was in possession of Susa. After the execution of

Philotas Philotas ( el, Φιλώτας; 365 BC – October 330 BC) was the eldest son of Parmenion, one of Alexander the Great's most experienced and talented generals. He rose to command the Companion Cavalry, but was accused of conspiring against Alex ...

on a charge of treason in 330 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, or according to Curtius, when he was given up to the torture. Amyntas defended himself and his brothers ably, and their innocence being further established by Polemon's reappearance, they were acquitted. Some little time after, Amyntas was killed by an arrow at the siege of a village. It is doubtful whether the son of Andromenes is the Amyntas mentioned by Curtius as commander of a portion of the Macedonian troops at the

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in 333; or again, the person spoken of as leading a brigade at the forcing of the

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in 331. But Amyntas was a common name among the Macedonians.

References

* Smith, William (editor); ''

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, (1867)

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