Amyntas of Galatia
Amyntas (
Amyntas seems to have first possessed
After the death of Deiotarus,[1] Amyntas was made king of Cappadocia in 37 as a client ruler of Mark Antony. Plutarch enumerates him among the adherents of Mark Antony at Actium and is mentioned as deserting to Octavian, just before the battle.[3]
While pursuing his schemes of aggrandizement, and endeavoring to reduce the refractory highlanders around him, Amyntas made himself master of Homonada[1] or Hoinona,[4] and slew the prince of that place; but his death was avenged by his widow, and Amyntas fell a victim in 25 to an ambush which she laid for him.[1] On his death Galatia became a Roman province.
Amyntas was the father of Artemidoros of the Trocmi, a Galatian nobleman, who married a princess of the Tectosagi, the daughter of Amyntas, Tetrarch of the Tectosagii. They were the parents of Gaius Julius Severus, a nobleman from Acmonia in Galatia, who was in turn the father of Gaius Julius Bassus, proconsul of Bithynia in 98, and Gaius Julius Severus, a Tribune of the Legio VI Ferrata.[citation needed]
Notes
- ^ Geographia, xii
- ^ Cicero, Ad Familiares, xiii. 73
- ^ Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Mark Anthony", 61, 63
- ^ Pliny, Naturalis Historia, v. 23
References
- Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Amyntas (6)", Boston, (1867)
- Head, Barclay; Historia Numorum, "Galatia", (1911)
- Settipani, Christian, Les Ancêtres de Charlemagne (France: Éditions Christian, 1989).
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Amyntas (6)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.