Manto

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Manto in a manuscript by Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris from the 15th to 16th centuries. Century. BNF , Français 599, Folio 25v

In Greek mythology , Manto ( Greek  Μαντώ ) was the daughter of the blind seer Teiresias and possessed the gift of prophecy herself.

During the Epigon War, Manto and her father were brought to Delphi as spoils of war . Apollo sent her to Asia Minor, where she founded the oracle of Apollo of Klaros at Colophon . There she married the Cretan Rhakios and became the mother of the seer Mopsos , who may have been fathered by Apollo and beat the seer Kalchas in a competition, whereupon Kalchas died.

In Euripides it is said that she married the still mad murderer Alkmaion and gave birth to Amphilochus and Tisiphone .

According to another tradition, she went to Italy and gave birth to Tiberinus , the river god of the Tiber, the Ognus, who founded Mantua ( 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 the “Classic Walpurgis Night” in Faust II , Goethe lets her appear as the daughter of Aesculapia . The quote became known: “ I love him who desires the impossible. "

References

  1. ↑ Euripides : Phoenissae 834 ff.
  2. ↑ Pomponius Mela 1.88
  3. ↑ Pausanias 7.3.1
  4. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3.7.7 [1]
  5. ↑ Virgil : Aeneid 10.199
  6. ↑ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust II , 2nd act, Am lower Peneios (end)