King of the Minyans at Orchomenus whose death at Onchestus set Erginus' tribute on Thebes — not to be confused with Clymenus father of Eurydice at Pylos, Clymenus the suitor at Dulichium, or Clymenus son of Oeneus in Aetolia.1
Apollodorus names Clymenus king of the Minyans when a charioteer of Menoeceus called Perieres struck him with a stone in a precinct of Poseidon at Onchestus. Carried dying to Orchomenus, he charged his son Erginus with vengeance; Erginus marched on Thebes, slew many, and laid on the city a tribute of a hundred cattle each year for twenty years.2
Pausanias gives a longer royal line: when Orchomenus son of Minyas died childless, the kingdom passed to Clymenus son of Presbon son of Phrixus. Sons were born to him — Erginus the eldest, then Stratius, Arrhon, and Pyleus, with Azeus the youngest. Clymenus was murdered at the feast of Onchestian Poseidon by men of Thebes over a trivial quarrel, and Erginus as eldest inherited both the grievance and the crown.3
The homonym hazard is real in our corpus: Homer names a Clymenus as father of Eurydice at sandy Pylos, Apollodorus lists another among Penelope's suitors, and Oeneus in Aetolia also had a son Clymenus. Only the Minyan king whose death bound Thebes to tribute belongs at Orchomenus of the Minyae.4
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