Mĭnyas

, a king of Bœotia, son of Neptune and Tri to gen i a the daughter of Æolus. Some make him the son of Neptune and Callirrhoe, or of Chryses, Neptune’s son, and Chrysogenia the daughter of Halmus. He married Clytodora, by whom he had Presbon, Per i cly menus, and Eteoclymenus. He was father of Orc home nos, Diochithondes, and Athamas, by a second marriage with Phanasora the daughter of Paon. According to Plutarch and Ovid, he had three daughters, called Leuconoe, Alcithoe, and Leucippe. They were changed into bats. See: Mineides . Pausanias , bk. 9 , ch. 36 .— Plutarch , Quæstiones Græcæ , ch. 38 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 4 , lis. 1 & 468.