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Amyntor (Ancient Greek: Ἀμύντωρ Amýntor "defender") was the name of a 4th-century BC Macedonian aristocrat, possibly of Athenian descent. He was the father of Hephaestion Amyntoros, who was a close companion and lieutenant to Alexander the Great. The full history of Hephaestion's lineage is unknown.
Amyntor was also unusual for the area, with only two examples confirmed as Macedonian: Amyntor, Hephaistion’s father, and an Amyntor living in Kolophon in the latter 4th century (ΑΜΥΝΤΩΡ ΓΕΡΟΝΤΟΣ ΜΑΚΕΔΩΝ)5.
- Jeanne Reames
Amyntor (Ancient Greek: Ἀμύντωρ, romanized: Amýntor, lit. 'defender') may refer to: Amyntor (son of Ormenus), a mythological king, who was the father of Phoenix, the tutor and companion of Achilles. Amyntor (son of Aegyptus), killed by his wife Damone, one of the Danaïdes.
Hephaestion (Ancient Greek: Ἡφαιστίων Hephaistíon; c. 356 BC – October 324 BC), son of Amyntor, was an ancient Macedonian nobleman of probable " Attic or Ionian extraction" [3] and a general in the army of Alexander the Great.
As a coming-of-age tale, dynamics between fathers and sons play a crucial role in both novels, making Philippos and Amyntor deliberate foils. Some of this is laid out in Becoming, but in Rise, it occupies front-and-center.
Amyntor (Ancient Greek: Ἀμύντωρ Amýntor defender) was the name of a 4th-century BC Macedonian aristocrat, possibly of Athenian descent. He was the father of Hephaestion Amyntoros, who was a close companion and lieutenant to Alexander the Great.
If Hephaistion's ancestry was not, in fact, ethnically Macedonian, this may offer us an interesting insight into fluidity of Macedonian identity under the monarchy, and thereby, to ancient conceptualizations of ethnicity more broadly.
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