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Amyntor

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Amyntor (Ancient Greek: Ἀμύντωρ, romanized: Amýntor, lit.'defender') may refer to:

  • In Greek mythology:
  • People:
  • Amyntor (Macedonian), a 4th-century Macedonian aristocrat and the father of Hephaestion, the general and companion of Alexander the Great
  • Gerhard von Amyntor, the pen name of the 19th-century German poet Dagobert von Gerhardt
  • In biology
  • Ceratomia amyntor, the elm sphinx or four-horned sphinx, a North American moth in the family Sphingidae.
  • Cyanophrys amyntor, or the Amyntor greenstreak, a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae
  • Papilio amyntor, a synonym for the butterfly species Artipe eryx
  • In the arts:
  • Amyntor, or a Defence of Milton's Life, a 1699 book by the Irish rationalist philosopher John Toland
  • Amyntor and Theodora a 1747 play by the Scottish dramatist David Mallet
  • "Amyntor", a 1795 song by the English composer Raynor Taylor
  • Amyntor, a character in the 1948 historical novel The King Must Die, by Mary Renault, about the ancient Greek hero Theseus.