Minyas
Μινύας
(Μινύας), a son of Chryses, and the ancestral hero of the race of the Minyans; but the accounts of his genealogy vary very much in the different traditions, for some call him a son of Orchomenus or Eteocles, others of Poseidon, Aleus, Ares, Sisyphus, or Halmus. He is further called the husband of Tritoleneia, Clytodora, or Phanosyra. Orchomenus. Presbon, Athamnas, Diochthondas, Eteoclymene, Periclymene. Leucippe, Arsinoe, and Alcithoe, are mentoned as his children. (Paus. 9.36.3. &c., 381.2; Schol. ad Apollon Rhod. 1.230, ad Pind. Ol. 14.5, Pyth. 4.120; Tzetz. ad Lyc. 875.) He is said to have built the first treasury, of which ruins are said to be still extant. (Paus. 9.38.2.) His tomb was shown at Orchomenos in Boeotia (9.381.3).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.