Minyer

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Minyer ( Greek  Μινύαι / Minyai ) was in Greek mythology the name of a part of the population of ancient Greece , which is no longer attested as an independent tribe for historical times and is also not archaeologically comprehensible.

Their main settlement area was in the area of ​​the Boiotic Orchomenos , west of the - now dried up - Kopaïs lake . From Mycenaean times testify sacred and secular buildings as well as ceramics from the developed culture of this region.

In Greek mythology , Minyas is considered the progenitor of the Minyer. While it is largely undisputed as a Boiotic eponym , the assignment of a group of Argonauts as Minyer appears questionable; those heroes came from the Thessalian Iolkos and were probably only derived from the Minyads in later genealogies .

In the legends of Heracles it is said that after his victory over the Minyans, the hero received his daughter Megara as a bride from the Theban King Creon as a thank you . Another story reports that the Minyans were once granted protection by the Attic king Munychos on their flight from the Thracians ; they received the area around the Athenian port as a place of residence and named it after their patron Munychia in thanks . Last but not least, the Cretan King Minos is said to have been the hero of a branch of the Minyans located on the same island. As such, Minos worshiped the tribal god Poseidon , who gave him power after the death of Karer Asterion .

The archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann named Miny ceramic after the Minyans in the 19th century , as he found this type of ceramic in Orchomenos. As it turned out later, however, it is not limited to Orchomenos or Boeotia.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jost Knauss: The improvement of the Kopais basin by the Minyer , 1987 ( web link )
  2. ^ Adolf Rapp : Minyads . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 3012 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Otto Jessen : Megara . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 2544 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Munychos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 3228 f. ( Digitized version ).
  5. ^ Johannes Hugo Helbig : Minos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 3003 ( digitized version ).