The Minyas, as Bernabé prints it, is an underworld epic. There the old ferryman Charon was guiding the boat that carries the dead, and they did not take it inside the harbour. Another fragment has Meleager in Hades, the son of warlike Oeneus, asked why he has come so far a road into the house of Hades and who the trusted companion is that followed him; a grim Erinys put the speech in mind, and Persephone and Zeus who delights in the thunderbolt stand in the broken lines about a bride-price.
Theseus and Peirithous belong to the same nekya. Bernabé prints the poem in Greek Epic Poets 1 (Leipzig, 1987).
The surviving text is katabasis hexameter, an underworld poem of the epic Cycle rather than a bare title.
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Minyas Fragments
Μινύου Ἀποσπάσματα
68 passages
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