Manto (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Manto (Greek Μαντώ ) was the daughter of the blind seer Tiresias, and had even the gift of prophecy.

In Epigonenkrieg Manto and her father was taken as war booty to Delphi. Apollo sent them to Asia Minor, where they the oracle of Apollo of Claros near Colophon founded. There she married the Cretans Rhakios and became the mother of the seer Mopsos, which was possibly fathered by Apollo and the seer Calchas beat in a race, after which Calchas died.

In Euripides is told that she had married the mother still insane murderer Alcmaeon and borne him Amphilochus and Tisiphone.

According to another tradition, she went to Italy and there gave birth to the Tiberinus, the river god of the Tiber the Ognus who founded Mantua (in Italian Mantova) and named after her.

In a third tradition Mantua was named after Manto, a daughter of Heracles.

In a short key scene of "Classic Walpurgisnacht" in Goethe 's Faust II can occur as the daughter of Aesculapius. The quote became famous: " Whom I love, who is seeking the impossible. "

References

• Person of Greek mythology
• Greek oracle
• Colophon