Amarantus
Ἀμάραντος
(Ἀμάραντος), of Alexandria, wrote a commentary upon one of Theocritus' Idyls (Etymol. M. p. 273. 40, ed. Sylb.), and a work entitled περὶ σκηνῆς. Respecting his time, we only know that he lived subsequently to Juba, king of Mauretania. (Athen. 8.343e., x. p. 414f.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.