Mopsos (son of the Manto)

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Mopsos ( ancient Greek Μόψος, Mópsos , Luwian probably Mukšas , Phoenician probably MPŠ) is the grandson of Teiresias and the son of his daughter Manto and Rhakios or the god Apollo in Greek mythology . Mopsos was a famous seer who is considered to be the founder of the oracle of Apollo in Klaros .

In a divinatory contest in Klaros, Mopsos defeated the official seer of the Trojan War on the side of the Greeks, Kalchas , who died out of shame and disappointment over this defeat. Mopsus then emigrated to Cilicia via Pamphylia , where he founded the cities of Phaselis and Aspendos . Eusebius of Caesarea reports that he was there in the middle of the 12th century BC. Ruled. The founding of the Cilician cities Mopsukrene and Mopsuestia are said to go back to Mopsos . The name Mopsuestia (also Mopsou-Hestia) is explained as the "hearth of Mopsus". The motif of fatal competition among seers was repeated in the quarrel with Amphilochus . According to Strabo , Mopsos ruled in the city of Mallos , which they both founded , southeast of Adana . After Amphilochus' return from Argos , he demanded, excluded from participation in the government, Mopsus to a duel, in which both died. They are said to have been buried on Mount Magarsa not far from the Pyramos River .

From the hieroglyphic-Phoenician bilingualism by Karatepe des Azatiwada from the 8th century BC. It appears that a Mukša, Phoenician mpš , founded the royal line in Adana ("House of Mukša"). The name Mukša was in Asia Minor during the Bronze Age since the end of the 15th century BC. In common use.

According to the Lydian story of the historian Xanthos, the Lydian king Mopsus drowned the goddess Atargatis together with her son Ichthys ('fish') in the holy lake near Ascalon .

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Web links

  • Mopsus in the Greek Mythology Index

Individual evidence

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  3. ^ A b Albert Forbiger : Strabo's description of the earth . tape 6 . Krais & Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1859, p. 146 ( digitized version [accessed on December 2, 2018] Strabo May 14, 2016).
  4. ↑ Hesiod fr. 278
  5. ^ A b Maciej Popko : Peoples and Languages ​​of Old Anatolia . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05708-0 , "Hieroglyphen-Luwier", p. 82 ( Excerpt [accessed on December 3, 2018] Polish: Ludy i języki starożytnej Anatolii . Warsaw 1999. Translated by Cyril Brosch).
  6. ^ William M. Ramsay : Cilicia, Tarsus, and the Great Taurus Pass . In: The Geographical Journal . tape 22 , no. 4 . The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), London October 1902, Cilicia, p. 358 (footnote) , JSTOR : 1775456 (English, digitized version [accessed December 2, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 6:19. Lycophron from Chalcis 439-446.
  8. ^ Eduard Jacobi : Concise dictionary of Greek and Roman mythology . Gustav Brauns, Leipzig 1830, Amphilochus, p. 88 ( digitized version [accessed December 2, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Strabo : Γεωγραφικά . In: August Meineke (Ed.): Strabonis: Geographica . tape 3 . Teubner, Leipzig 1877, May 14, 2016, p. 941–942 (Greek, digitized , Perseus Project [accessed December 3, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Athenaios : Δειπνοσοφισταί . In: August Meineke (Ed.): Deipnosophistae . tape 2 . Teubner, Leipzig 1858, 8.37, p. 130 (Greek, digitized , Perseus Project [accessed December 3, 2018]).