Tiresias
mythological figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the augur Tiresias
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Legendary blind Theban seer of Greek myth.
And if we think those figures the inventions of fabling licence — Mopsus, Tiresias, Amphiaraus, Calchas, Helenus (whom, however, not even the fables would have made augurs if the thing were wholly to be rejected) — shall we not, taught by examples even from our own house, prove the divinity of the gods?
Tusculan Disputations
Blind seer and augur of Greek myth
And so the augur Tiresias, whom the poets feign wise, they never bring on deploring his blindness;