Manto

Role: captive and settler · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 43

In Book 1, Chapter 43, Manto is named as a daughter of Polyidus and a sibling of Astycratea. By Book 7, Chapter 3, she is among the captives taken to Apollo at Delphi; at Claros, Rhacius understands who she and her companions are and what they seek, then marries her and makes them fellow-settlers with him.

In Book 9, Chapter 33, the Argives offer Manto, identified there as the daughter of Tiresias, to Apollo. She sails to Ionia and marries Rhacius; their son Mopsus later drives out the Carians.

Relationship record

Life events

• Rhacius married Manto and made her companions fellow-settlers with him.(Book 7 · Chapter 3 · 📍 Claros)
  • With: Rhacius
  • “And he, understanding from Manto who they were and their errand, married Manto and made her companions fellow-settlers with him.”
• The Argives offered Manto, Tiresias’s daughter, to Apollo.(Book 9 · Chapter 33)
  • With: Apollo
  • “They say also that Manto the daughter of Tiresias was offered to Apollo by the Argives”
• Manto sailed to Ionia and married the Cretan Rhacius.(Book 9 · Chapter 33 · 📍 Colophonia)
  • With: Rhacius
  • “And there she married the Cretan Rhacius.”

Book 1 · Chapter 43

• parent: Polyidus “the tombs of Astycratea and Manto, the daughters of Polyidus”
• siblings with Astycratea (Astycratea and Manto are sisters.) “the tombs of Astycratea and Manto, the daughters of Polyidus”

Book 7 · Chapter 3

• married with Rhacius “And he, understanding from Manto who they were and their errand, married Manto and made her companions fellow-settlers with him.”
• child: Mopsus (son of Rhacius) “And Mopsus, the son of Rhacius and Manto, drove out all the Carians altogether.”
• with Apollo (Manto was taken to Apollo as a captive.) “But when the Argives and Thersander the son of Polynices took Thebes, several captives, and among others Manto were taken to Apollo at Delphi”

Book 9 · Chapter 10

• parent: Tiresias “the stone on which they say Manto the daughter of Tiresias sate.”

Book 9 · Chapter 33

• parent: Tiresias “They say also that Manto the daughter of Tiresias was offered to Apollo by the Argives, but that, in consequence of the orders of the god, she sailed to what is now Ionia, and to that part of it called Colophonia.”
• married with Rhacius “And there she married the Cretan Rhacius.”
• with Apollo (Manto was offered to Apollo.) “They say also that Manto the daughter of Tiresias was offered to Apollo by the Argives, but that, in consequence of the orders of the god, she sailed to what is now Ionia, and to that part of it called Colophonia.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.