Manto, daughter ofHeracles. According toServius (comm. onVirgil,Aeneid X, 199), some held that this was the Manto for whom Mantua was named.[2]
Manto, daughter of the seerPolyidus. She and her sisterAstycrateia were brought toMegara by their father, who came there to cleanseAlcathous for the murder of his sonCallipolis. The tomb of the two sisters was shown at Megara in later times.[3]
Manto is remembered inDe Mulieribus Claris, a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women by theFlorentine authorGiovanni Boccaccio, composed in 1361–62. It is notable as the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in Western literature.[5]
^Boccaccio, Giovanni (2003).Famous Women. I Tatti Renaissance Library. Vol. 1. Translated by Virginia Brown. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. xi.ISBN0-674-01130-9.
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