Tiresias

Ti·re·si·as

or Tei·re·si·as T0231950 (tī-rē′sē-əs)n. Greek Mythology A blind soothsayer of Thebes.

Tiresias

(taɪˈriːsɪˌæs) n (Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth a blind soothsayer of Thebes, who revealed to Oedipus that the latter had murdered his father and married his mother

Ti•re•si•as

or Tei•re•si•as

(taɪˈri si əs)

n. (in Greek myth) a blind prophet of Thebes.

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Tiresias - (Greek mythology) the blind prophet of Thebes who revealed to Oedipus that Oedipus had murdered his father and married his motherGreek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks

Tiresias

(tīrē`shəs, –sēəs), in Greek mythology, a blind soothsayer who appears in many legends. According to one myth, when he saw Athena bathing she blinded him, but by way of compensation granted him prophetic powers. Another story is that Hera blinded him for disparaging her sex when he claimed that women enjoyed love more than men; Zeus then recompensed him with long life and the power of prophecy.

Tiresias

prophet who lived as man and a woman. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 255–256]See: Androgyny

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made sightless by Athena for viewing her nakedness. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 1086]See: Blindness

Tiresias

blind and greatest of all mythological prophets. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 255; Gk. Lit.: Antigone; Odyssey; Oedipus Tyrannus]See: Prophecy

Tiresias

saw two snakes copulating and was changed into a woman. [Gk. Myth.: Jobes, 1576]See: Transformation

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noun (Greek mythology) the blind prophet of Thebes who revealed to Oedipus that Oedipus had murdered his father and married his mother

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