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This person’s grandchildren include a non-Argonaut named Mopsus, who established a sanctuary at Klaros in Ionia. This person’s daughter, who refused to flee a siege, was sent to Delphi as the fairest war-prize captured by the Epigoni. The Romans said that Mantua was named for this person’s daughter Manto. This person explained that Alcmene had lain with a disguised Zeus to Alcmene’s confused husband Amphitryon. After protests by this person’s mother Chariclo, their ears were cleaned, granting the ability to understand birds. This person settled an argument between Zeus and Hera by saying women enjoyed sex more than men, angering Hera, who once punished him for seven years for striking a pair of snakes. For 10 points, name this blind, sex-changing prophet of Apollo. ■END■

ANSWER: Tiresias
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