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Minyan, a. and n.2|ˈmɪnɪən|
[f. L. Minyae, Gr. Μινύαι Minyans + -an.]
A. adj. Also 6 Mynian, 9 Minyean |mɪnɪˈiːən| [Gr. Μινύειος, adj. f. Μινύαι.]
a. Of or pertaining to the Minyans.
b. Designating a type of very smooth grey pottery first found at Orchomenus and originally attributed to the Minyans.
B. n. A member of a possibly historical ancient people said to have inhabited parts of central Greece (chiefly Orchomenus in Boeotia and Iolchus in Thessaly), with whom the legends concerning Jason and the voyage of Argo are associated. Also with pl. Minyae, Minyai.
1598Chapman tr. Homer's Seaven Bookes of Iliades 35 Those who in Aspledon dwelt, and Mynian Orchomen. 1709I. Littlebury tr. Herodotus' Hist. I. iv. 416 Their Answer was, that they were Minyans, Grandsons of those Heroes who sail'd in the Argos. Ibid., When the Lacedemonians heard they were of Minyan Extraction, they sent another Messenger. 1867Max Müller Chips II. xvi. 67 The Minyans..reigned chiefly in Iolkos, in Southern Thessaly. 1881H. Schliemann in Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. II. 152 A wall of unwrought stones..which Professor Sayce holds to be the ancient Minyean city wall. 1894tr. A. Holm's Hist. Greece I. vii. 65 The oldest accounts of the Minyae are to be found in Homer where the Boeotian Orchomenus is mentioned as a Minyan city. 1912Wace & Thompson Prehist. Thessaly 21 Minyan Ware. This class of pottery was first found in any quantity by Schliemann at Orchomenos. 1925V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization v. 78 It is only in Central Greece that Minyan ware occurs in such quantities... True Minyan is wheel-made and has a silver-grey colour to the reduction of the iron oxides in the clay. 1928C. Dawson Age of Gods viii. 190 The Greek mainland was conquered by a new people from the north, the bearers of the so-called Minyan culture. 1929F. W. Hasluck Christianity & Islam under Sultans II. xxv. 366 The role of the magician-philosopher-engineer Plato..proves to be similar to that of the Minyans in Boeotia. 1958L. Cottrell Anvil of Civilisation x. 138 These invaders are characterised by a certain type of plain-grey pottery called Minyan. 1964E. Vermeule Greece in Bronze Age iii. 72 The tribal name Minyan must be strenuously distinguished from the archaeological label ‘Minyan’ for the invaders who bring the Middle Helladic Age to Greece. We have no idea at all what these newcomers called themselves. 1969A. Toynbee Some Probl. Greek Hist. i. ii. 16 The Minyai were a maritime commercial people who came by sea. Ibid., We shall find independent legendary evidence of a Cretan origin for..the Minyan settlements. 1970Bray & Trump Dict. Archaeol. 149/2 Minyan Ware, a grey or yellow wheel-made ware of high quality... It was ancestral to Mycenaean pottery, and may represent a movement of new peoples into the Aegean area. |