Μινύειος
οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδείς, οὐδ' ὁ Μυσῶν ἔσχατος → there is nobody, not even the last of the Mysians | there is nobody, not even the meanest of mankind
English (LSJ)
α, ον, Minyan, Ὀρχομενὸς Μινύειος Il. 2.511, Od. 11.284; Epic Μινυήϊος Il. 11.722, Hes. Fr. 144.4; — fem. Μινυηΐς, -ΐδος, ἡ, ARh. 1.233.
French (Bailly abrégé)
α, ον :
des Minyes ; Μινύειος Ὀρχομένος Orchomène du territoire des Minyes ; Μινύειος ποταμός le fleuve des Minyes, càd l'Anigros, en Élide.
Étymologie: Μινύαι.
English (Autenrieth)
Minyeian, belonging to the ancient stock of the Minyae in Orchomenus, Od. 11.284 and Il. 2.511.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
Μῐνύειος: эп.-ион. Μινυήϊος 3 принадлежащий племени миниев (Ὀρχομενός Hom., Thuc.): ἡ πόλις Μινυεία Pind. = Ὀρχομενός.
Middle Liddell
Μινύειος, η, ον
Minyan, Il.; epic also Μινυήϊος, Hom.
Wikipedia EN
According to Greek mythology and legendary prehistory of the Aegean region, the Minyans or Minyae (Greek: Μινύες, Minyes) were an autochthonous group inhabiting the Aegean region. The extent to which the prehistory of the Aegean world is reflected in literary accounts of legendary peoples, and the degree to which material culture can be securely linked to language-based ethnicity have been subjected to repeated revision.
John L. Caskey's interpretation of his archaeological excavations conducted in the 1950s linked the ethno-linguistic "Proto-Greeks" to the bearers of the Minyan (or Middle Helladic) culture. More recent scholars have questioned or amended his dating and doubted the linking of material culture to linguistic ethnicity.
Greeks did not always clearly distinguish the Minyans from the Pelasgian cultures that had preceded them. Greek mythographers gave the Minyans an eponymous founder, Minyas, perhaps as legendary as Pelasgus (the founding father of the Pelasgians), which was a broader category of pre-Greek Aegean peoples. These Minyans were associated with Boeotian Orchomenus, as when Pausanias relates that "Teos used to be inhabited by Minyans of Orchomenus, who came to it with Athamas" and may have represented a ruling dynasty or a tribe later located in Boeotia.
Herodotus asserts several times that Pelasgians dwelt in the distant past with the Athenians in Attica, and that those Pelasgians driven from Attica in turn drove the Minyans out of Lemnos. The same historian also states that Minyans from Amyklai settled on the island of Thera in 800 BC.
Heracles, the hero whose exploits always celebrate the new Olympian order over the old traditions, came to Thebes, one of the ancient Mycenaean cities of Greece, and found that the Greeks were paying tribute of 100 cattle (a hecatomb) each year to Erginus, king of the Minyans. Heracles attacked a group of emissaries from the Minyans, and cut off their ears, noses, and hands. He then tied them around their necks and told them to take those for tribute to Erginus. Erginus made war on Thebes, but Heracles defeated the Minyans with his fellow Thebans after arming them with weapons that had been dedicated in temples. Erginus was killed and the Minyans were forced to pay double the previous tribute to the Thebans. Heracles was also credited with the burning of the palace at Orchomenus: "Then appearing unawares before the city of the Orchomenians and slipping in at their gates he burned the palace of the Minyans and razed the city to the ground."
The Argonauts were sometimes referred to as "Minyans" because Jason's mother came from that line, and several of his cousins joined in the adventure.
