Minyas (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Minyas (Greek: Μινύας) was the founder of Orchomenus, Boeotia.Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3. 1093 ff As the ancestor of the Minyans, a number of Boeotian genealogies lead back to him, according to the classicist H.J. Rose. Accounts vary as to his own parentage: one source states that he was thought to be the son of Orchomenus and Hermippe, his real father being Poseidon;Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 230 in another account he is called son of Poseidon and Callirhoe;Tzetzes on Lycophron, 875 yet others variously give his father as Chryses (son of Poseidon and Chrysogeneia, daughter of Almus),Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 36. 4; in scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3. 1094, Minyas himself is the son of Poseidon and "Chrysogone", daughter of Almus. Ares, Aleus or Eteoclus.Scholia on Pindar, Isthmian Ode 1. 79
Minyas was married to either Euryanassa, Euryale, Tritogeneia (daughter of Aeolus), Clytodora, or Phanosyra (daughter of Paeon). Of them either Euryanassa or Clytodora bore him a daughter Clymene (also called Periclymene,Gaius Julius Hyginus Fabulae 14 mother of Iphiclus and Alcimede by Phylacus or Cephalus). Clytodora is also given as the mother by Minyas of Presbon and Eteoclymene, and Phanosyra of Orchomenus, Diochthondes, and Athamas. Minyas' other children include Cyparissus, the founder of Anticyra,Scholia on Homer, Iliad, 2. 159; on Odyssey, 11. 362 and three daughters known as the Minyades.Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4. 1 - 168Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 10Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, 38
According to Apollonius of RhodesApollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.229 and PausaniasPausanias, Description of Greece, 9.38.2 he was the first king ever to have made a treasury, of which the ruins were still extant in Pausanias' times.
==See also==
* Boeotia
* Persephone
==References==
==Sources==
*Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 2, page 1092
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Category:Greek Mythology