Tiresias
noun, Classical Mythology.
1.
a blind prophet, usually said to have been blinded because he saw Athena bathing, and then to have been awarded the gift of prophecy as a consolation for his blindness.
noun
1.
(Greek myth) a blind soothsayer of Thebes, who revealed to Oedipus that the latter had murdered his father and married his mother
Tiresias [(teye-ree-see-uhs)]
In classical mythology, the blind prophet who revealed the truth of the crimes of Oedipus. According to the Roman poet Ovid, Tiresias spent part of his life as a man and part of it as a woman, so he knew the act of love from both points of view. When asked by Jupiter and Juno who enjoyed sex more, he answered that women did. This answer so enraged Juno that she blinded Tiresias.
Read Also:
- Tiresome
adjective 1. causing or liable to cause a person to tire; wearisome: a tiresome job. 2. annoying or vexatious. adjective 1. boring and irritating; irksome
- Tirewoman
noun, plural tirewomen. Archaic. 1. a lady’s maid. noun (pl) -women 1. an obsolete term for lady’s maid
- Tirhakah
the last king of Egypt of the Ethiopian (the fifteenth) dynasty. He was the brother-in-law of So (q.v.). He probably ascended the throne about B.C. 692, having been previously king of Ethiopia (2 Kings 19:9; Isa. 37:9), which with Egypt now formed one nation. He was a great warrior, and but little is known of […]
- Tirich-mir
noun 1. a mountain in N Pakistan, on the border of Afghanistan: highest peak of the Hindu Kush Mountains. 25,230 feet (7690 meters). noun 1. a mountain in N Pakistan: highest peak of the Hindu Kush. Height: 7690 m (25 230 ft)
- Tiring
verb (used with object), tired, tiring. 1. to reduce or exhaust the strength of, as by exertion; make weary; fatigue: The long walk tired him. 2. to exhaust the interest, patience, etc., of; make weary; bore: Your stories tire me. verb (used without object), tired, tiring. 3. to have the strength reduced or exhausted, as […]