Definitions for Teiresias

Teiresias Tei·re·si·as

Spelling: [tahy-ree-see-uh s]
IPA: /taɪˈri si əs/

Teiresias is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 340 anagrams from letters in Teiresias (aeeiirsst).

Definitions for Teiresias

noun

  1. Tiresias.
  2. 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.

Examples for Teiresias

Like Œdipus, he treats the warnings of Teiresias with scorn, and persists in his criminal persecution of the dead Polyneices.

And can it be said that the others, apart from Teiresias, had really overcome death?

Cassandra's prophecies were not attended to; the Delphic oracle spoke in vain; and Teiresias is only honored when it is too late.

Meanwhile, she would like to hear the prophecy of Teiresias.

What better is this than the absurd vaticination of Teiresias?

Warned by the seer Teiresias Creon repents him and hurries to release Antigone from her rocky prison.

Each word uttered by Teiresias is pregnant with terrific revelation.

At the fountain is the monument of Teiresias, and in the same place the temple of the Tilphossian Apollo.

Then Teiresias was stung past bearing, and would hold his tongue no longer.

Warned by the prophet Teiresias, he gives way, but too late.

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