![]() Homer represents him as carrying his golden staff as soothsayer even in the world below, when Odysseus consults him as to his way home and of all the shades, he alone, by favour of Persephone, possesses unimpaired memory and intellect. He died at the well Tilphossa, near Haliartus, where his grave was pointed out, while he was also honoured by a cenotaph in Thebes. During the flight, or else at the conquest of Thebes by the Epigoni, he was made a prisoner, and with his daughter Manto ( q.v.), who also possessed the gift of prophecy, was consecrated to the service of the Delphian Apollo. ![]() ![]() In the war of the Epigoni he advised the Thebans to enter into negotiations for peace, and to avail themselves of the opportunity thus afforded to take to flight. In the wars of the Seven against Thebes he declared that the Thebans would be victorious if Creon's son Menoeceus were to sacrifice himself. He plays an important part in the story of (Edipus and the wars against Thebes. He is also said to have been changed into a woman for a short time. According to a third account, he was blinded by Hera, because in a dispute between her and Zeus he decided against her, and Zeus compensated him by granting him the gift of prophecy and a life seven (or nine) times as long as that of other men. When invoked by his mother, the goddess could not restore his sight, but endued him with a knowledge of the language of birds, and presented him with a staff, by means of which he could walk like a man with perfect vision. According to another, he became blind when, on his seeing Athene in the bath, she splashed water into his eyes. According to one tradition, the gods took his sight away when he was seven years old, because he revealed to men things which they ought not to have known. The cause of his blindness has been variously stated. The famous blind soothsayer of Thebes, son of Eueres and Chariclo, and a descendant of the Spartan Udaeus. At Megara he cleansed Alcathous from the murder of his son Callipolis, and erected the temple of Dionysus. To his son he prophesied his death before Troy and the son of Minos, Glaucus ( q.v., 2), he raised from the dead. Son of Coeranus, grandson of Abas, great-grandson of Melampus, father of Euchenor, Astycratia, and Manto like his ancestor, a celebrated seer, who flourished, according to different accounts, either at Corinth or Argos or Megara. Mopsus and Amphilochus killed each other in a combat for the possession of the sanctuary. Son of the Cretan seer Rhacius and of Manto ( q.v.), and founder, with Amphilochus, son of Amphiaraus, of the celebrated oracle ( q.v.) at Mallus in Cilicia. Here she bore Mopsus ( q.v., 2) to the Cretan seer Rhacius. After the capture of the town by the Epigoni she was presented to the oracle at Delphi as part of the booty, and sent by the god to Asia, in order to found the oracle of the Clarian Apollo in the neighbourhood of what was afterwards Colophon. Daughter of the seer Tireslas, was herself a prophetess, at first of the Ismenian Apollo at Thebes.
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