Minyas (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Minyas (; Ancient Greek: Μινύας) was the founder of Orchomenus, Boeotia. 
Family.
As the ancestor of the Minyans, a number of Boeotian genealogies lead back to him, according to the classicist H.J. Rose. Accounts vary as to his own parentage: one source states that he was thought to be the son of Orchomenus and Hermippe, his real father being Poseidon; in another account he is called a son of Poseidon and Callirhoe or Tritogeneia, daughter of Aeolus or Euryanassa, daughter of Hyperphas or lastly, Chrysogone, daughter of Almus. Yet others variously give Minyas' father as Chryses (son of Poseidon and Chrysogeneia), Eteocles, Aeolus, Ares, Aleus, Thessalus (son of Poseidon), Sisyphus and Halmus (Almus).
Minyas was married to Euryale, Clytodora, or Phanosyra (daughter of Paeon). Of them, Clytodora bore him a daughter Clymene (also called Periclymene, mother of Iphiclus and Alcimede by Phylacus or Cephalus). Clytodora is also given as the mother by Minyas of Orchomenus, Presbon, Athamas, Diochthondas and Eteoclymene. Minyas' other children include Cyparissus, the founder of Anticyra, and three daughters known as the Minyades who were turned into bats. In some accounts, he was also said to be the father of Persephone who became the mother of Iasus, father of Amphion, father of Chloris, wife of Neleus and Phylomache, wife of Pelias. Also, Elara, the mother of the giant Tityus was also described sometimes as Minyas' daughter. 
According to Apollonius Rhodius and Pausanias, he was the first king to have made a treasury, of which the ruins were still extant in Pausanias' times.