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Minyans  

Andrew Robert Burn and Antony Spawforth

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22 December 2015
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  1. Greek History and Historiography
  2. Greek Material Culture: Bronze Age
  3. Greek Myth and Religion
Minyans (Μινύαι), the descendants of *Minyas, an Ur-Greek population-group believed in Classical times to have inhabited Aegean lands in the heroic age (see dryops; pelasgians), with centres at *Orchomenus (1) and *Iolcus. Western Peloponnesian communities of so-called Minyans existed in the lifetime of Herodotus (4. 148). In myth they appear outside the mainland mainly linked to the itinerary of the Minyan *Argonauts (Teos, Lemnos, Cyrene, etc.