Minyas (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Minyas was the founder of Orchomenus, Boeotia.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: 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, Eteocles, Aeolus, Ares, Aleus, Sisyphus and Halmus.
Minyas was married to either Euryanassa, Euryale, Tritogeneia, Clytodora, or Phanosyra. Of them, either Euryanassa or Clytodora bore him a daughter Clymene. Clytodora is also given as the mother by Minyas of Orchomenus, Presbon, Athamas, Diochthondas and Eteoclymene. Minyas' other children include Cyparissus, the founder of Anticyra, and three daughters known as the Minyades. In some accounts, he was also said to be the father of Persephone who married Amphion and by him became the mother of Chloris, wife of Neleus. Also, Elara, the mother of the giant Tityus was also described sometimes as Minyas' daughter.
According to Apollonius Rhodius and Pausanias, he was the first king to have made a treasury, of which the ruins were still extant in Pausanias' times.
