Mopsus

A son of Apollo (or according to Pausanias,1 of Rhacius) and Manto, the daughter of Tiresias. He was believed to be the founder of Mallos in Asia Minor, where his oracle existed as late as the time of Strabo.2

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References

Notes

  1. Description of Greece vii, 3.2.
  2. Geography xiv, p. 675; comp. Plutarch. De Defectu Oraculorum, 45; Conon. Narratives, 6.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.