Amyntas
Family: Macedonian · Role: king · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 6
Amyntas is identified as the father of Philip. In Book 3, Chapter 7, Philip is said to have reduced Greece completely after its internal decline.
In Book 5, Chapter 20, an ivory-and-gold statue of Amyntas, alongside statues of Philip, Alexander, Olympias and Eurydice, is described at the Altis; Leochares made them.
Relationship record
Life events
- Philip reduced Greece completely after its internal decline.(Book 3 · Chapter 7)
- With: Philip (son of Amyntas)
- “and afterwards Philip the son of Amyntas reduced it completely, when it was already rotten and altogether unsound.”
- Leochares created ivory-and-gold statues of Philip, Alexander, Amyntas, Olympias, and Eurydice.(Book 5 · Chapter 20 · 📍 Altis)
- With: Philip (son of Amyntas) Alexander (son of Philip) Leochares Olympias Eurydice
- “And there are statues there of Philip, and Alexander, and Amyntas the father of Philip. They are by Leochares in ivory and gold, like the statues of Olympias and Eurydice.”
Book 1 · Chapter 6
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) “Philip the son of Amyntas”
Book 1 · Chapter 44
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) “Philip the son of Amyntas”
Book 2 · Chapter 20
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) “Philip the son of Amyntas”
Book 3 · Chapter 7
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) “afterwards Philip the son of Amyntas reduced it completely”
Book 4 · Chapter 27
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) “Philip the son of Amyntas”
Book 4 · Chapter 28
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) (Amyntas is identified as Philip's father.) “Philip, the son of Amyntas”
Book 5 · Chapter 4
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) “And when Philip, the son of Amyntas, could not keep his hands off Greece”
Book 5 · Chapter 20
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) “And there are statues there of Philip, and Alexander, and Amyntas the father of Philip.”
- with Leochares (Leochares made the statue of Amyntas.) “And there are statues there of Philip, and Alexander, and Amyntas the father of Philip. They are by Leochares in ivory and gold, like the statues of Olympias and Eurydice.”
Book 5 · Chapter 23
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) “Philip, the son of Amyntas, and earlier still by the Athenians”
Book 6 · Chapter 4
- with Polycles (Polycles made Amyntas's statue.) “has made a statue of the Ephesian pancratiast, Amyntas the son of Hellanicus”
- parent: Hellanicus (Hellanicus was Amyntas's father.) “Amyntas the son of Hellanicus”
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) (Amyntas was Philip's father.) “got its name from its founder Philip the son of Amyntas”
Book 6 · Chapter 11
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) “Philip the son of Amyntas”
Book 6 · Chapter 18
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) “Here too I found the statue of Anaximenes, who wrote a History of all Antiquities in Greece, and of the exploits of Philip the son of Amyntas, and afterwards of Alexander.”
Book 7 · Chapter 7
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) “And Philip the son of Demetrius, when he came to age, received the rule over the Macedonians from his stepfather Antigonus, who was glad to surrender it, and inspired great fear in all the Greeks by closely imitating Philip the son of Amyntas, (who was no ancestor of his, but a true despot), as in bribing people to betray their country.”
Book 7 · Chapter 8
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) (The text identifies Philip as Amyntas's son.) “in the days of Philip the son of Amyntas”
Book 7 · Chapter 10
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) “Philip, the son of Amyntas”
Book 8 · Chapter 7
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) “Philip, the son of Amyntas”
Book 8 · Chapter 27
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) (Amyntas was Philip's father.) “the power of the Macedonians and Philip the son of Amyntas”
Book 8 · Chapter 30
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) “And the portico in the market-place called Philip’s was not erected by Philip the son of Amyntas, but the people of Megalopolis to gratify him named it after him.”
Book 9 · Chapter 7
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) “Philip (the son of Amyntas)”
Book 9 · Chapter 29
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) (Amyntas is identified as Philip's father.) “Philip the son of Amyntas, according to a vision he had in a dream, removed the remains of Linus to Macedonia,”
Book 9 · Chapter 37
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) “were restored to Orchomenus by Philip the son of Amyntas.”
Book 9 · Chapter 40
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) “Philip the son of Amyntas erected no trophy either here or elsewhere for victories whether over Greeks or barbarians”
Book 10 · Chapter 2
- child: Philip (son of Amyntas) (Amyntas is the father of Philip.) “and Philip the son of Amyntas joined the Thebans”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.