Manto

First appears: The Melampodia

In The Epigoni, Manto, daughter of Teiresias, was sent to Delphi as a first fruit of the spoil. By Apollo’s oracle she met Rhacius, son of Lebes, and married him. She came to Colophon and wept over the destruction of her country. In The Melampodia, she was named as the mother of Mopsus.

Relationship record

Life events

• The Epigoni sent Manto to Delphi as a first fruit of their spoil.(The Epigoni · 📍 Delphi)
  • “Manto the daughter of Teiresias was sent to Delphi by the Epigoni as a first fruit of their spoil”
• Manto met Rhacius in accordance with Apollo’s oracle.(The Epigoni)
  • With: Rhacius
  • “in accordance with an oracle of Apollo she went out and met Rhacius, the son of Lebes, a Mycenaean by race”
• Manto married Rhacius.(The Epigoni)
  • With: Rhacius
  • “This man she married”
• Manto came to Colophon and wept over the destruction of her country.(The Epigoni · 📍 Colophon)
  • “coming to Colophon, was there much cast down and wept over the destruction of her country”

The Melampodia

• child: Mopsus “a seer greater than himself, Mopsus, the son of Manto, Teiresias’ daughter”
• parent: Teiresias “a seer greater than himself, Mopsus, the son of Manto, Teiresias’ daughter”

The Epigoni

• parent: Teiresias “Manto the daughter of Teiresias was sent to Delphi”
• married with Rhacius “This man she married”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.