Minyae
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descendants of the Argonauts · the Minyae
in the texts
The Histories
Descendants of the Argonauts expelled from Lemnos who settle in Sparta, later escape execution, and help found Thera.
The descendants of the crew of the Argo were driven out by the Pelasgians who carried off the Athenian women from Brauron;
They answered the messenger that they were Minyae, descendants of the heroes who had sailed in the Argo and put in at Lemnos and there begot their race.
Now when they were about to kill the prisoners, the wives of the Minyae, who were natives of the country, daughters of leading Spartans, asked permission to enter the prison and each converse with her husband;
The Rights of War and Peace
Group received by the Lacedaemonians who insolently demanded a share of government, per Herodotus.
A proposal of this kind made by the Minyae to the Lacedaemonians, who had received them, is very properly considered by Herodotus of insolent, and unreasonable.