Minyas (mythology)
Mythical king of Orchomenus
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In Greek mythology, Minyas (/ˈmɪniəs, ˈmɪnjəs/; Ancient Greek: Μινύας) was the founder of Orchomenus, Boeotia.[1]
Family
As the ancestor of the Minyans, a number of Boeotian genealogies lead back to him, according to the classicist H.J. Rose.[2] Accounts vary as to his own parentage:
- Orchomenus and Hermippe, his real father being Poseidon;[3]
- Poseidon either by (1) the Oceanid Callirhoe;[4][AI-generated source?] (2) Tritogeneia, daughter of Aeolus;[5][AI-generated source?] (3) Euryanassa, daughter of Hyperphas[6] or lastly, Chrysogone, daughter of Almus;[7]
- father is only mentioned as (1) Aeolus;[1] (2) Sisyphus;[8] (3) Chryses, son of Poseidon and Chrysogeneia;[9] (4) Eteocles[10] or (5) Ares[11] (6) Aleus[12] and lastly (7) Halmus (Almus)[citation needed].
Minyas was married to Tritolenia (Tritogeneia[13][AI-generated source?]), Clytodora, or Phanosyra, daughter of Paion.[14] The following are the children of Minyas by one of his supposed wives:
- By Clytodora,[4] Presbon, Eteoclymene and Periclymene;
- By Phanosyra,[4] Orchomenus, Diochthondas and Athamas;
- Clymene,[6] also called Periclymene,[6] mother of Iphiclus and Alcimede by Phylacus or Cephalus;
- Cyparissus, the founder of Anticyra;[15]
- the Minyades, three daughters who were turned into bats;[16]
- Persephone, wife of Amphion (son of Iasus) and mother of Chloris and Phylomache, respectively the wives of Neleus[17] and Pelias; and lastly
- Elara, the mother of the giant Tityus.[18]
| Relation | Name | Sources | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hom. | Hes. | Pindar | Apollon. | Ovid | Apd. | Plut. | Hyg. | Pau. | Ant. | Aelian | Steph. | Eust. | Tzet. | W. Smith | |||||
| Sch. Ody. | Fr. | Sch. Pyth | Sch. Isth. | Sch. Oly | Arg. | Sch. | Meta. | Gk. Qs. | Fab. | Odys. | Lyco. | ||||||||
| Parentage | Poseidon and Euryanassa | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||
| Poseidon and Tritogeneia | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Eteocles | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Aeolus | ✓[19] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Poseidon and Hermippe | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Poseidon and Chrysogone | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chryses | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Orchomenus | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Poseidon and Callirhoe | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ares | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Aleus | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sisyphus | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halmus | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wife | Tritolenia | ✓ | |||||||||||||||||
| Clytodora | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Phanosyra | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Children | Clymene | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||||
| Elara | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||||||||
| Eteoclymene | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Diochthondas | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Orchomenus | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||||||||
| Athamas | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Presbon | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leuconoe or | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leucippe | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||
| Alcithoe or | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||||||||
| Alcathoe | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||||||||
| Arsinoe or | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Arsippe or | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Aristippe | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Periclymene | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||||||||
| Cyparissus | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Persephone | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
Mythology
According to Apollonius Rhodius[20] and Pausanias,[21] Minyas was the first king to have made a treasury, of which the ruins were still extant in Pausanias' times.