Teiresias
Role: seer · First appears: The Melampodia
At Cithaeron, Teiresias was changed into a woman after killing a female snake, then regained his former nature after killing a male snake. Later, when Zeus and Hera asked him about sexual pleasure, he answered, “Of ten parts a man enjoys only one; but a woman’s sense enjoys all ten in full.” Hera blinded him, and Zeus gave him the power of a seer. Teiresias was the parent of Manto, whose son Mopsus was a seer greater than Teiresias himself.
Relationship record
Life events
- Teiresias is changed into a woman after killing a female snake, then regains his former nature after killing a male snake.(The Melampodia · 📍 Cithaeron)
- “They say that Teiresias saw two snakes mating on Cithaeron and that, when he killed the female, he was changed into a woman, and again, when he killed the male, took again his own nature.”
- After Teiresias answers their question about sexual pleasure, Hera blinds him and Zeus gives him the seer’s power.(The Melampodia)
The Melampodia
- child: Manto “a seer greater than himself, Mopsus, the son of Manto, Teiresias’ daughter”
The Epigoni
- child: Manto “Manto the daughter of Teiresias was sent to Delphi”
Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures
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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.