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In Greek mythology, Minyas was the founder of Orchomenus, Boeotia. 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; in another account he is called son of Poseidon and Callirhoe; yet others variously give his father as Chryses (son of Poseidon and Chrysogeneia, daughter of Almus), Ares, Aleus or Eteoclus.
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, 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, and three daughters known as the Minyades.
According to Apollonius Rhodius and Pausanias he was the first king ever to have made a treasury, of which the ruins were still extant in Pausanias' times.
Minyas was the title of an early Greek epic poem, probably dating to the 6th century BC, which is now lost and whose author is unknown. The very few fragments that survive (available in Greek in Davies' and Bernabé's editions, and in Greek and English translation edited by M. L. West) seem to have nothing to do with Minyas the ancient ruler of Orchomenus, however: it concerns the story of Theseus' and Pirithous's descent into the Underworld.
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Minyas may refer to:
- Minyas (moth), a moth genus
- Minyas (mythology), the founder of Orchomenus
- Minyas (poem), a Greek epic poem
- according to Nicolas of Damascus, a region of Armenia, see Minyans