Amyntas

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Who is Amyntas?

Amyntas, son of Antiochus, was a Macedonian general, fugitive and traitor. As officer of Philip II, he and Amyntas were awarded proxenies by the Oropians in Boeotia before 338 BC. After the death of Philip II, Amyntas fled from Macedonia. Arrian ascribes his flight from Macedonia to his hatred and fear of Alexander the Great; the ground of these feelings is not stated, but Mitford connects him with the plot of Pausanias of Orestis and the murder of Philip. He took refuge in Ephesus under Persian protection; whence, however, after the battle of the Granicus, fearing the approach of Alexander, he escaped with the Greek mercenaries who garrisoned the place, and fled to the court of Darius. In the winter of the same year, 233 BC, while Alexander was at Phaselis in Lycia, discovery was made of a plot against his life, in which Amyntas was implicated. He appears to have acted as the channel through whom Darius had been negotiating with Alexander of Lyncestis, and had promised to aid him in mounting the Macedonian throne on condition of assassinating Alexander. The design was discovered through the confession of Asisines, a Persian, whom Darius had despatched on a secret mission to the Lyncestian, and who was apprehended by Parmenion in Phrygia.

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