Amyntianus

Amyntianus (Ancient Greek: Ἀμυντιανός) was the author of a work on Alexander the Great, which was dedicated to the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, the style of which Photios I of Constantinople thought disparagingly of. He also wrote the life of Olympias, the mother of Alexander, and a few other biographies.[1] The Scholiast on Pindar refers to a work of Amyntianus on elephants.[2]

Notes
  1. Phot. Cod. 131, p. 97, a., ed. Bekker.
  2. Scholiast on Pindar ad 01. iii. 52

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Amyntianus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 156.



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