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 | | In the legend, when Rhacius, the Cretan settler of Caria, learned who they were, he let them settle in the country and married Manto himself. |
 | | Deep exploratory trenches dug between the altar and the temple façade, revealed proto-Geometric pottery of the 10th century BCE, attesting to the presence hinted at in myth [3]. |
 | | After the Trojan War, the Trojan seer Calchas was among the refugees at Clarus, where he challenged Mopsus, the charismatic son of Manto and Rhacius, and superseded him as seer of the oracular site, and there he eventually died (Argonautica1.308; Ovid Metamorphoses 1.516 and 11.413; Strabo 14.4.3). |
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