Minyas (mythology)

Family

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:

• Orchomenus and Hermippe, his real father being Poseidon;
• Poseidon either by (1) the Oceanid Callirhoe; (2) Tritogeneia, daughter of Aeolus; (3) Euryanassa, daughter of Hyperphas or lastly, Chrysogone, daughter of Almus;
• father is only mentioned as (1) Aeolus; (2) Sisyphus; (3) Chryses, son of Poseidon and Chrysogeneia; (4) Eteocles or (5) Ares (6) Aleus and lastly (7) Halmus (Almus).

Minyas was married to Tritolenia (Tritogeneia), Clytodora, or Phanosyra, daughter of Paion. The following are the children of Minyas by one of his supposed wives:

• By Clytodora, Presbon, Eteoclymene and Periclymene;
• By Phanosyra, Orchomenus, Diochthondas and Athamas;
• Clymene, also called Periclymene, mother of Iphiclus and Alcimede by Phylacus or Cephalus;
• Cyparissus, the founder of Anticyra;
• the Minyades, three daughters who were turned into bats;
• Persephone, wife of Amphion (son of Iasus) and mother of Chloris and Phylomache, respectively the wives of Neleus and Pelias; and lastly
• Elara, the mother of the giant Tityus.

Mythology

According to Apollonius Rhodius and Pausanias, Minyas was the first king to have made a treasury, of which the ruins were still extant in Pausanias' times.

Notes

References

• Antoninus Liberalis, The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Moralia with an English Translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Fowler, R. L. (2000), Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1: Text and Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2000. .

References

1. [[Apollonius Rhodius]], 3.1093 ff.
2. (1929). "A Handbook of Greek Mythology". E.P. Dutton and Company.
3. [[Scholia]] ad Apollonius Rhodius, [https://archive.org/details/argonauticaemend00apoluoft/page/318/mode/1up?view=theater 1.230]
4. Scholia ad [[Pindar]], ''Olympian Odes'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaveterainp01drac/page/391/mode/1up?view=theater 14.5c]; [[Tzetzes]] ad [[Lycophron]], [https://topostext.org/work/860#874 875]
5. Tritogeneia]], daughter of [[Aeolus (son of Hellen). 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, [https://topostext.org/work/860#874 875]
6. Loeb]] edition, 1914)
7. Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, [https://archive.org/details/argonauticaemend00apoluoft/page/476/mode/1up?view=theater 3.1094]: Minyas himself is the son of Poseidon and "Chrysogone", daughter of Almus.
8. Scholia ad Homer, ''Iliad'' 2.511
9. [[Pausanias (geographer). Pausanias]], 9.36.4
10. Scholia ad Pindar, ''Isthmian Ode'' [https://archive.org/details/pindaroutasozome02pinduoft/page/521/mode/1up?view=theater 1.79]
11. Dionysius]] as the authority
12. Aristodemus]] as the authority
13. Scholia ad [[Pindar]], ''Pythian Odes'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaveterainp02drac/page/114/mode/1up?view=theater 4.122]; Tzetzes ad Lycophron, [https://topostext.org/work/860#874 875]
14. Smith, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DM%3Aentry+group%3D27%3Aentry%3Dminyas-bio-1 s.v. Minyas].
15. Scholia on Homer, ''Iliad'' 2.159; on ''Odyssey'' 11.362
16. [[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 4.1-168; [[Antoninus Liberalis]], [https://topostext.org/work/216#10 10] as cited in [[Nicander of Sparta. Nicander's]] ''Metamorphoses''; [[Plutarch]], ''Quaestiones Graecae'' 38
17. Scholia on Homer, ''Odyssey'' 11.281, citing [[Pherecydes of Athens
18. Scholiast on Homer, ''Odyssey'' 7.324; [[Eustathius of Thessalonica. 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