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Definition: Tiresias |
TiresiasNoun1. (Greek mythology) the blind prophet of Thebes who revealed to Oedipus that Oedipus had murdered his father and married his mother. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Tiresias" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Oracle | Noun: oracle; prophet, prophesier, seer, soothsayer, augur, fortune teller, crystal gazer, witch, geomancer, aruspex; aruspice, haruspice; haruspex; astrologer, star gazer; Sibyl; Python, Pythoness; Pythia; Pythian oracle, Delphian oracle; Monitor, Sphinx, Tiresias, Cassandra, Sibylline leaves; Zadkiel, Old Moore; sorcerer; interpreter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
As a young man, he found two snakes mating and hit them with a stick. He was then transformed into a woman. Seven years later, Tiresias did the same thing again and became a man once more. As a result of his experiences, Zeus and Hera asked him to settle the question of which sex, male or female, experienced more pleasure during intercourse. Zeus claimed it was women; Hera claimed it was men. When Tiresias sided with Zeus, Hera struck him blind. Since Zeus could not undo what she had done, he gave him the gift of prophecy.
An alternative story has it that Tiresias was blinded by Athena after he stumbled onto her bathing naked. His mother, Chariclo, begged her to undo her curse, but Athena couldn't; she gave him prophecy instead.
During the Seven Against Thebes, Megareus killed himself because Tiresias prophesied that a voluntary death from a Theban would save Thebes.
After the Seven Against Thebes battle, King Creon of Thebes refused to allow Polynices to be buried. His sister, Antigone, defied the order and was caught; Creon decreed that she was to be buried alive. The gods expressed their disapproval of Creon's decision through Tiresias. However, Antigone had already hanged herself rather than be buried alive. When Creon arrived at the tomb where she was to be interred, his son, Haemon, attacked him and then killed himself. When Creon's wife, Eurydice, was informed of their death she, too, takes her own life.
Tiresias died after drinking the water from the spring Tilphussa.
After Tiresias died, he was visited in the underworld by Odysseus, to whom he gave valuable advice concerning the rest of his voyage, specifically concerning the cattle of Apollo, which Odysseus' men do not follow.
See also Epigonoi
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tiresias."
Crosswords: Tiresias |
| Specialty definitions using "Tiresias": Phineus. (references) |
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| "Tiresias" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tiresias" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tiresias | 22 |
teiresias tiresias | 5 |
de les mamelles tiresias | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: satirise. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: airiest, satires. | |
-2 letters: airest, arises, assert, asters, irises, raises, resist, satire, serais, siesta, sister, sistra, sitars, stairs, stares, striae, tassie, terais. | |
-3 letters: airts, arise, arses, arsis, asset, aster, astir, easts, irate, issei, raise, rases, rates, rests, retia, rises, rites, saris, sates, satis, sears, seats, serai, sires, sitar, sites, stair, stare, stars, sties, stirs. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: ostiaries, patissier, satirised, satirises, satirizes, serialist, varsities, wisterias. | |
+2 letters: aerialists, airstrikes, armistices, arrivistes, artemisias, artistries, asperities, bestiaries, carditises, dissipater, papistries, parasitise, patisserie, patissiers, pityriases, privatises, ramosities, sacristies, sanitaries, scarcities, seminarist, serialists, solitaires, solitaries, sparsities, stratifies, tanistries, trichiases, vestiaries. | |
+3 letters: absurdities, administers, adversities, antipyresis, antistories, arteritises, asterisking, austerities, baptistries, cassiterite, casuistries, ceramicists, clavierists, disparities, dissipaters, distrainers, erraticisms, gastritides, gastritises, insectaries, liberalists, literalisms, literalists, militarises, natriuresis, palmistries, parasitised, parasitises, parasitizes, parotitises, patisseries, pediatrists, peristalsis, rascalities, recitalists, relativisms, relativists, revitalises, revivalists, rickettsias, salubrities, sanctifiers, seminarists, signatories, stabilizers, trailerists, tristearins, trivialises, waitressing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 69 72 65 73 69 61 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .. .-. . ... .. .- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101001 01110010 01100101 01110011 01101001 01100001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T i r e s i a s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0069 0072 0065 0073 0069 0061 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5475847185756785 |
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