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Tiresias

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Ti·re·si·as or Tei·re·si·as  (t-rs-s)
n. Greek Mythology
A blind soothsayer of Thebes.
Tiresias [taɪˈriːsɪˌæs]
n
(Myth & Legend / 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
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Noun1.TiresiasTiresias - (Greek mythology) the blind prophet of Thebes who revealed to Oedipus that Oedipus had murdered his father and married his mother
Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks


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If the statesman had this knowledge, and could teach what he knew, he would be like Tiresias in the world below,--'he alone has wisdom, but the rest flit like shadows.
Meno by Plato View in context
Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Cleer Spring, or shadie Grove, or Sunnie Hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee SION and the flowrie Brooks beneath That wash thy hallowd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit: nor somtimes forget Those other two equal'd with me in Fate, So were I equal'd with them in renown, Blind THAMYRIS and blind MAEONIDES, And TIRESIAS and PHINEUS Prophets old.
Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context
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