Minyae
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Heracles
A hostile people whom Heracles defeated in battle to liberate Thebes, commemorated by the altar of Zeus the Savior at which the family takes refuge.
Do they make so light of my hard warring with the Minyans?
the man who faced alone all the Minyans in battle and allowed Thebes to see the light with free eyes.
So I, left here by my son, while he is gone into the pitchy darkness of the earth, to tend and guard his children in his house, am taking my place with their mother, that the race of Heracles may not perish, here at the altar of Zeus the Savior, which my own gallant child set up to commemorate his glorious victory over the Minyae.
The Histories
Descendants of the Argonauts expelled from Lemnos who settle in Sparta, later escape execution, and help found Thera.
hence the Lacedaemonians resolved to kill them, and they seized them and cast them into prison.
The Minyae immediately married, and gave in marriage to others the women they had brought from Lemnos.
But in no time these Minyae became imperious, demanding an equal right to the kingship, and doing other impious things;
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.
Olympian
The ancient people of Orchomenus, whose homeland ('the Minyan land') is credited with Asopichus's Olympic victory under the Graces' favor.
songful queens, Graces of splendid Orchomenus, guardians of the ancient race of Minyans, hear me;
and you, Thalia, passionate for dance and song, having looked with favor on this victory procession, stepping lightly in honor of gracious fortune.
Pythian
An alternate name for the Argonauts, emphasizing their ancestral link to Arcesilas's Minyan lineage.
For when the Minyans sailed after that fleece, divinely-sent honors were planted for his race.