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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A blind soothsayer of Thebes.
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- proper noun Greek mythology A long-lived
blind soothsayer who participated over seven generations in the legendary history of (the Greek city)Thebes , noted also for being transformed into a woman for seven years, so being symbolic ofandrogyny .
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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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Examples
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61 Why the Psyche or soul of Tiresias is of the masculine gender.
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61 Why the Psyche or soul of Tiresias is of the masculine gender.
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Pindar's Elysium in 'Tiresias', the sentiment pervading 'The Lotos
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850
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SL: Let's speak about your new album - "Tiresias" is a blind prophet of Zeus in Greek mythology.
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SL: Let's speak about your new album - "Tiresias" is a blind prophet of Zeus in Greek mythology.
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The APE claims to exactly understand our predicament, present and future, and he counsels the hoi polloi with a degree of certainty unmatched since the days of the blind seer, Tiresias I use the gendered pronoun intentionally: for some reason – possibly because men are more prone to intellectual hubris than women – almost every APE is a "he".
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The Greek gods who changed Tiresias into a woman asked him afterwards whether men or women enjoyed more pleasure.
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In the imagination, we can surely be as hermaphroditic as the seer Tiresias, whom the Greek gods turned into a woman for seven years.
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We're very old school, Jocasta's brother, Creon (Jose Joaquin Perez), says at one point, referring to the barrio's belief system that accepts as gospel the premonitions of soothsayers, such as the blind Tiresias (Gerard Ender), who steals Oedipus away and raises him as his own in prison.
Theater review: 'Oedipus el Rey' at Woolly Mammoth Peter Marks 2011
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