If i am not mistaken this specific book contains biographies limited solely to the period of Alexander and doesnt cover before. I dont doubt at the time of Alexander, Amyntas was a widely spread name in Macedonia especially if we keep in mind some owners of the name had been previously Argead kings.athenas owl wrote: Well, take gander at Heckel's Who Who. There's nary an Amyntor to be found, but countless Amyntas'.
From the other hand i dont find in Heckel's book any Macedonian called Aerminas eventhough we know this was a Macedonian name at the times of Alexander I. Same with a Macedonian name sharing the same root with both Amyntas and Amyntor. There is no Amynandros either or at least googling inside his book didnt bring anything .
Searching about Amyntor i found out a reference by J. B. Bury in his Quarterly Review for July 1916 who is quoting the linguist Otto Hoffmann.
"Hoffmann speaks of the ending -- tor as especially characteristic of Macedonian names, noting Amyntor as a true Macedonian formation."
I would say Geron is a Homeric word. It had the political meaning initially of Elder or Leader and was attributed to Priam. Yes this was Amyntor Gerontos from the Kolophon inscription. But as we find out from SEG 31:636 Geron was a name found in Macedonia even in the period between 400-350 BC.Geron is a Greek "name"? Doesn't it mean "old man"? Who was Amyntor son of Geron? Would that be something like Amyntor Jr.? Is this the Amyntor gerontos of Makedon from the Kolophon inscription? Then we are talking about the same person.
Applying the same logic, we should also assume Parmenion isnt a Macedonian name either. The name Parmenion appears in several instances in Greece but it seems not to appear in inscriptions from the region of Macedonia prior to the famous general but contrary only after his time. We simply cant be certain.There may be -ion ending names in Macedon, but the veneration of Hephaistos was not to any degree worth mentoning. Again places like Samothrace (with the Kabeiroi), Samos, Lycia, Athens however do. As evidenced by the "Hephaistion" in Athens. As one friend said it, why did they name their kid after a temple? The name Hephaistion does appear in Athens and Attica, Samos, Samothrace, Melos, Euboia prior or contemporaneously.