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Minyas (mythology)

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In Greek mythology, Minyas (/ˈmɪniəs, ˈmɪnjəs/; Ancient Greek: Μινύας) was the founder of Orchomenus, Boeotia.[1]

Family

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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:

Minyas was married to Tritolenia (Tritogeneia[13]), Clytodora, or Phanosyra, daughter of Paion.[14] The following are the children of Minyas by one of her suppose wives:

Comparative table of Minyas' family
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

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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.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b Apollonius Rhodius, 3.1093 ff.
  2. ^ Rose, H.J. (1929). A Handbook of Greek Mythology. E.P. Dutton and Company. p. 261. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  3. ^ Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 1.230
  4. ^ a b c Scholia ad Pindar, Olympian Odes 14.5c; Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 875
  5. ^ Scholia ad Pindar, Pythian Odes 4.122 - most probably an error and it should be read as “. . Argonauts, most of them from Minyas, son of Poseidon, and Tritogeneia, daughter of Aeolus . .” with Minyas and Tritogeneia being the ancestors of the majority of the heroes instead of Minyas being a son of Poseidon and Tritogeneia. The latter was usually listed as his spouse rather than his mother. Compare with Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 875
  6. ^ a b c Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey 11.326 = Hesiod, fr. 62 (Loeb edition, 1914)
  7. ^ Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 3.1094: Minyas himself is the son of Poseidon and "Chrysogone", daughter of Almus.
  8. ^ Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 2.511
  9. ^ Pausanias, 9.36.4
  10. ^ Scholia ad Pindar, Isthmian Ode 1.79
  11. ^ Scholia ad Pindar, Isthmian Ode 1.79 with Dionysius as the authority
  12. ^ Scholia ad Pindar, Isthmian Ode 1.79 with Aristodemus as the authority
  13. ^ Scholia ad Pindar, Pythian Odes 4.122; Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 875
  14. ^ Smith, s.v. Minyas.
  15. ^ Scholia on Homer, Iliad 2.159; on Odyssey 11.362
  16. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.1-168; Antoninus Liberalis, 10 as cited in Nicander's Metamorphoses; Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 38
  17. ^ Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 11.281, citing Pherecydes (fr. 117 Fowler)
  18. ^ Scholiast on Homer, Odyssey 7.324; Eustathius on Homer, Odyssey 7.324, p. 1581
  19. ^ Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.1553: "He (i.e. Minyas) is called Aeolian, not as being the immediate offspring of Aeolus, but as being descended from his stocks. Sisyphus, the son of Aeolus, had two sons, Almus and Porphyrion. Minyas, the builder of Orchomenus, was the son of Neptune, by Chrysogone, the daughter of Almus thus he was a descendant of Aeolus by the mother's side."
  20. ^ Apollonius Rhodius, 1.229
  21. ^ Pausanias, 9.38.2

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