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Tiresias

prophet who lived as man and a woman. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 255–256]

Tiresias

made sightless by Athena for viewing her nakedness. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 1086]

Tiresias

blind and greatest of all mythological prophets. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 255; Gk. Lit.: Antigone; Odyssey; Oedipus Tyrannus]

Tiresias

saw two snakes copulating and was changed into a woman. [Gk. Myth.: Jobes, 1576]
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Just as the one-eyed merchant, seller of currants, melts into the Phoenician Sailor, and the latter is not wholly distinct from Ferdinand Prince of Naples, so all the women are one woman, and the two sexes meet in Tiresias. What Tiresias sees, in fact is the substance of the poem.
He is a blind seer, Tiresias, in the Greek tragedies.
"TIRESIAS [a Creonte],-- [...] Y esto es una enfermedad que padece la ciudad por tu particular manera de interpretar las cosas, pues los altares y lares permanecen repletos con todas sus ofrendas por culpa de haber devorado aves y perros al desdichado hijo de Edipo que cayo en combate" (SOFOCLES, Antigona 1015-1020, p.
Notemos que Tiresias, no mito grego, era um filosofo cego, cuja potencia reflexiva era agucada pela capacidade de adivinhacao, que havia experimentado toda a potencia organica que e o alvo da sua misoginia.
Este caso concreto se da, por ejemplo, en las obras tituladas Tanatos (Figura 2) y Tiresias (Figura 3), pertenecientes a la serie Grecia.
"We've built up those ensemble muscles in a way that doesn't usually happen," offers Paul Loper, the professional dancer who plays blind Tiresias. "It provided us time for connecting, risking, responding to each other, blending ourselves into a team.
In Kate Tempest: Hold Your Own the 28-year-old will present her new collection, an ambitious multi-voiced work based around the mythical figure of Tiresias, the blind Greek prophet who spent seven years transformed into a woman.
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