1. A daughter of the Theban soothsayer Teiresias. She herself was a prophetess, first of the
Ismenian Apollo at Thebes, where monuments of her existed (Paus.
9.10.3), and subsequently of the Delphian and Clarian Apollo. After the taking of
Thebes by the Epigoni, she, with other captives, was dedicated to Apollo at Delphi. The god
sent the captives to Asia, where they founded the sanctuary of Apollo not far from the place
where afterwards the town of,Colophon was built. Rhacius, a Cretan, who had settled there
before, married Manto, and be came by her the father of Mopsus. (Apollod. 3.7.4; Paus. 7.3.1, 9.33.1; Strab. ix. p.443; Schol. ad
Apollon. 1.908.) According to Euripides, she had previously become the mother of
Amphilochus and Tisiphone, by Alcmaeon, the leader of the Epigoni. (Apollod. 3.7.7.) Being a prophetess of Apollo, she is also called Daphne, i. e. the
laurel virgin. (Diod. 4.66; comp. Athen.
7.298.)