Tiresias
Role: father of Manto · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 10
In Book 9, Chapter 10, Tiresias is named as Manto’s father, and in Chapter 11, Historis is also identified as his daughter. In Chapter 33, a tradition says he drank from the fountain Tilphusa while thirsty, died there, and was buried on the spot; Homer represented him as the only person of understanding in Hades.
In Book 10, Chapter 28, Odysseus descended to Hades to consult Tiresias about his return home.
Relationship record
Life events
- Tiresias drank from Tilphusa, died, and was buried there.(Book 9 · Chapter 33 · 📍 Tilphusa)
- “Tiresias who was thirsty drank of the fountain Tilphusa and gave up the ghost, and was buried on the spot.”
- Odysseus descended to Hades to consult Tiresias about his return home.(Book 10 · Chapter 28 · 📍 Hades)
- With: Odysseus
- “Odysseus descending to Hades, to consult the soul of Tiresias about his return home.”
Book 9 · Chapter 10
- child: Manto “the stone on which they say Manto the daughter of Tiresias sate.”
Book 9 · Chapter 11
- child: Historis “Historis the daughter of Tiresias played a trick on them”
Book 9 · Chapter 33
- child: Manto “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.”
- with Homer (Homer represented Tiresias as the only person of understanding in Hades.) “and how Homer in his Odyssey has represented him as the only person of understanding in Hades”
- with Apollo (Tiresias was being taken to Apollo at Delphi.) “It is a tradition of the Greeks that the Argives, who in conjunction with the sons of Polynices captured Thebes, were taking Tiresias and the spoil to Apollo at Delphi, when Tiresias who was thirsty drank of the fountain Tilphusa and gave up the ghost, and was buried on the spot.”
Book 10 · Chapter 28
- with Odysseus (Odysseus consults Tiresias.) “The other part of the painting, that on the left, represents Odysseus descending to Hades, to consult the soul of Tiresias about his return home.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.