TIRESIAS: THE BLIND PROPHET WHO ONCE A PEEPING TOM?

Tiresias: The Blind Prophet Who Once was Peeping Tom?
Hello everyone,
I did a short research on Tiresias, and I found that besides being a wise seer, he has been both male and female. Tiresias, a seer, or prophet, from Thebes, said to have been struck blind by the goddess Athena because he had seen her bathing. Athena is the daughter of Zeus, and one of the greatest Greek goddess, she compensated Tiresias with the gift of prophecy. Then Tiresias can foretell the future, but you gain one, you lose one. According to another version, of Tiresias story, after separating a pair of snakes that he found copulating in the road, Tiresias was for a time transformed into a woman. Later, having become a man again, which is back to his original self, he was asked by Zeus and Hera, king and queen of the gods, to tell which sex had more pleasure in love. When he replied that woman had nine times as much pleasure as man, Hera, in anger, blinded him, but Zeus granted him long life. Tiresias played a prominent part in Theban legends, delivering prophecies to Oedipus, king of Thebes. He died while fleeing the wrath of the Epigoni, warlike sons of the Argive heroes who were killed in the war of the Seven Against Thebes, well most of it were described in the Greek Mythology.


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