Minyas

Role: king · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 36

In Book 9, Chapter 36, Minyas, a king, is identified as the son of Chryses and the father of Orchomenus. He built a Treasury to store his wealth, “the first we know of that built a Treasury for the reception of his money.” In Book 10, Chapter 29, Clymene is represented as his daughter.

Relationship record

Life events

• Minyas built a Treasury to store his wealth.(Book 9 · Chapter 36)
  • “and he was the first we know of that built a Treasury for the reception of his money.”

Book 9 · Chapter 36

• parent: Chryses “And he had a son Minyas,”
• child: Orchomenus “The son of Minyas was Orchomenus,”

Book 10 · Chapter 29

• child: Clymene “Clymene, who is represented in The Return from Ilium to have been the daughter of Minyas”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.