Tiresias

Family: Thebes · Role: soothsayer · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.6

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Tiresias) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Tiresias) · The Divine Comedy (as Tiresias)

Apollodorus, Library 3.6

parent: Everes “Tiresias, son of Everes and a nymph Chariclo”
parent: Chariclo “Tiresias, son of Everes and a nymph Chariclo”
with Hera (interaction) “Wherefore Hera blinded him, but Zeus bestowed on him the art of soothsaying.”
with Zeus (interaction) “Wherefore Hera blinded him, but Zeus bestowed on him the art of soothsaying.”
with Athena (The text says Athena blinded Tiresias.) “But Pherecydes says that he was blinded by Athena ; for Chariclo was dear to Athena and Tiresias saw the goddess stark naked,”
with Menoeceus (interaction) “he said that they should be victorious if Menoeceus, son of Creon, would offer himself freely as a sacrifice to Ares.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.7

child: Manto “with it Manto, daughter of Tiresias”

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