Minyas

[ min-ee-uhs ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.

1. a king of Orchomenus, famed for his wealth.

Example Sentences

We find it, for instance, at Mykenæ and Tiryns, at Tanagra and Athens, in Rhodes, in Cyprus, and in Thera, while I picked up specimens of it in the neighbourhood of the Treasury of Minyas and on the site of the Acropolis at Orchomenus.

From Project Gutenberg

Scarcely pausing to taste his success, Schliemann rushed on to Mycenae, Agamemnon's city, and there unearthed the tombs of the Mycenaean kings with their treasures of gold and priceless antiquities, and on again to Orchomenus in the Peloponnesus, where he uncovered the legendary treasury of King Minyas, and to Tiryns, the birthplace of Hercules, where he revealed the largest citadel of the Grecian world.

From Time Magazine Archive

ATHAMAS, in Greek mythology, king of the Minyae in Boeotian Orchomenus, son of Aeolus, king of Thessaly, or of Minyas.

From Project Gutenberg

Indeed, in a mound lately opened in the Ohio Valley, two circular chambers were discovered, and are still preserved, the walls being made of logs, and the roofs formed by overlapping stones rising to a point, on precisely the same plan as the Treasury of Atreus at Mycen�, and the chamber at Orchomenus, built by Minyas, king of Bœotia.

From Project Gutenberg

The Minoan remains at Orchomenus which are traceable to the latest period go far to substantiate the philological comparison between the name of Minyas, the traditional ancestor of this ancient race, and that of Minos.

From Project Gutenberg