In Greek mythology, Minyas was the eponymous founder-king of Orchomenus in Boeotia and ancestor of the Minyans. Parentage and children vary widely across scholia and mythographers — often Poseidon by one of several mothers, or Aeolus, Sisyphus, Chryses, and others. He was famed as the first builder of a treasury; Pausanias still saw its ruins. Father (in many lists) of Clymene and of the Minyades who refuse Dionysus.
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I.Founder and treasury
Apollonius Rhodius and Pausanias present Minyas as the first king to build a treasury; the stone chamber at Orchomenus was still pointed out in the second century CE. Boeotian genealogies routinely lead back to him as Minyan ancestor, even when his own parents disagree from source to source.
Wives in the handbooks include Tritolenia/Tritogeneia, Clytodora, and Phanosyra; among frequently named children are Clymene (Periclymene), mother of Iphiclus and Alcimede, and the three Minyades transformed for scorning Dionysus.
II.Tangled parentage
Scholia and later compilers offer Poseidon with Callirhoe, Tritogeneia, Euryanassa, Chrysogone, or Hermippe; or fathers Aeolus, Sisyphus, Chryses, Eteocles, Ares, Aleus, Halmus, or even Orchomenus himself. The atlas keeps a single Orchomenian node — minyas-orchomenus — for the legendary founder, without collapsing every contradictory father into one undisputed pedigree.