Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Manto.
In play
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Manto (daughter of Tiresias)
Theban prophetess, daughter of Tiresias — captive after the Epigoni, mother of Mopsus in some lines, and in Italian tradition the eponym behind Mantua.
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Thebaid
Statius
Statius’ epic keeps Manto beside blind Tiresias in Theban rites — the seer’s daughter as ritual voice before the city’s fall.