Minyas
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Minyas may refer to:
- Minyas (moth), a moth genusGenusIn biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
- Minyas (mythology)Minyas (mythology)In Greek mythology, Minyas was the founder of Orchomenus, Boetia. As the ancestor of the Minyans, a number of Boeotian genealogies lead back to him, according to the classicist H.J. Rose...
, the founder of Orchomenus - Minyas (poem)Minyas (poem)Minyas was the title of an early Greek epic poem, probably dating to the 6th century BC, which is now lost and whose author is unknown. The very few fragments that survive Minyas was the title of an early Greek epic poem, probably dating to the 6th century BC, which is now lost and whose author...
, a Greek epic poem - according to Nicolas of Damascus, a region of ArmeniaArmeniaArmenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
, see MinyansMinyansAccording to Greek mythology and legendary prehistory of the Aegean region, the Minyans were an autochthonous group inhabiting the Aegean region...