 The same historian also states that Minyans from Amyklai settled on the island of Thera in 800 BC.Heracles, the hero whose exploits always celebrate the new Olympian order over the old traditions, came to Thebes, one of the ancient Mycenaean cities of Greece, and found that the Greeks were paying tribute of 100 cattle (a "hecatomb") each year to Erginus, king of the Minyans.Heracles attacked a group of emissaries from the Minyans, and cut off their ears, noses and hands.