Minyas (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Minyas (Template:IPAc-en; Ancient Greek: Μινύας) was the founder of Orchomenus, Boeotia.<ref name=":0">Apollonius Rhodius, 3.1093 ff.</ref>
Family
[edit]As the ancestor of the Minyans, a number of Boeotian genealogies lead back to him, according to the classicist H.J. Rose.<ref name="Rose - Mythology Handbook">Template:Cite book</ref> Accounts vary as to his own parentage:
- Orchomenus and Hermippe, his real father being Poseidon;<ref>Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 1.230</ref>
- Poseidon either by (1) the Oceanid Callirhoe;<ref name=":2">Scholia ad Pindar, Olympian Odes 14.5c; Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 875</ref>Template:AI-generated source (2) Tritogeneia, daughter of Aeolus;<ref>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</ref>Template:AI-generated source (3) Euryanassa, daughter of Hyperphas<ref name=":3">Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey 11.326 = Hesiod, fr. 62 (Loeb edition, 1914)</ref> or lastly, Chrysogone, daughter of Almus;<ref>Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 3.1094: Minyas himself is the son of Poseidon and "Chrysogone", daughter of Almus.</ref>
- father is only mentioned as (1) Aeolus;<ref name=":0" /> (2) Sisyphus;<ref>Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 2.511</ref> (3) Chryses, son of Poseidon and Chrysogeneia;<ref>Pausanias, 9.36.4</ref> (4) Eteocles<ref>Scholia ad Pindar, Isthmian Ode 1.79</ref> or (5) Ares<ref>Scholia ad Pindar, Isthmian Ode 1.79 with Dionysius as the authority</ref> (6) Aleus<ref>Scholia ad Pindar, Isthmian Ode 1.79 with Aristodemus as the authority</ref> and lastly (7) Halmus (Almus)Template:Citation needed.
Minyas was married to Tritolenia (Tritogeneia<ref name=":1">Scholia ad Pindar, Pythian Odes 4.122; Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 875</ref>Template:AI-generated source), Clytodora, or Phanosyra, daughter of Paion.<ref>Smith, s.v. Minyas.</ref> The following are the children of Minyas by one of her suppose wives:
- By Clytodora,<ref name=":2" /> Presbon, Eteoclymene and Periclymene;
- By Phanosyra,<ref name=":2" /> Orchomenus, Diochthondas and Athamas;
- Clymene,<ref name=":3" /> also called Periclymene,<ref name=":3" /> mother of Iphiclus and Alcimede by Phylacus or Cephalus;
- Cyparissus, the founder of Anticyra;<ref>Scholia on Homer, Iliad 2.159; on Odyssey 11.362</ref>
- the Minyades, three daughters who were turned into bats;<ref>Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.1-168; Antoninus Liberalis, 10 as cited in Nicander's Metamorphoses; Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 38</ref>
- Persephone, wife of Amphion (son of Iasus) and mother of Chloris and Phylomache, respectively the wives of Neleus<ref>Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 11.281, citing Pherecydes (fr. 117 Fowler)</ref> and Pelias; and lastly
- Elara, the mother of the giant Tityus.<ref>Scholiast on Homer, Odyssey 7.324; Eustathius on Homer, Odyssey 7.324, p. 1581</ref>
| 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 | ✓<ref>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."</ref> | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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
[edit]According to Apollonius Rhodius<ref>Apollonius Rhodius, 1.229</ref> and Pausanias,<ref>Pausanias, 9.38.2</ref> 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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[edit]References
[edit]- 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. Template:ISBN. 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. Template:ISBN.
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