Mantios
Mantios ( Greek Μάντιος ) is a person from Greek mythology .
He was the son of the ancient seer and doctor Melampus and Iphianassa or Iphianeira. His brother was Antiphates , father of Oikles ; Bias, Manto and Pronoe are also mentioned as further siblings.
Mantios became the father of Clitus and Polypheides . Because of its beauty, Clitus was kidnapped by Eos to the seat of the gods. Polypheides in turn continued the tradition of the Melampid family and became a seer. After falling out with Mantios, he left Argos and moved to Hyperesia , where he directed an oracle of Apollo .
Pausanias also names Oikles as the son of Mantios, who, however, was his nephew after Homer.
literature
- Adolf Schirmer: Mantios . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 2326 ( digitized version ).
swell
- Homer , Odyssee , 15, 237 ff. ( Online in German translation )
Individual evidence
- ^ Pausanias, Helládos Periēgēsis 6, 17, 6.