Tiresias
Tiresias is the soul of a priest and prophet consulted by Odysseus in the underworld. He provides guidance about the means for Odysseus to return home to Ithaca. He appears among the countless shades of the dead and gone.
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When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Appears in Book 11 of the Odyssey as a soul consulted through nekyia ritual.
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Source passages
“There he consults the soul of the priest and prophet Tiresias about the means to return home to Ithaca”
#20093 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“This sex-change tale shares some similarities with the myth of the goddess Athena blinding a man named Tiresias for seeing her naked, as well as the story of Actaeon, who saw Artemis naked and was transformed into a stag that was hunted down and devoured by his own hunting dogs”
#42838 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Odyssey, Odysseus makes a trip to the underworld to seek the advice of the dead prophet Tiresias. In the underworld, he encounters many spirits, among them is that of his mother, Anticlea. Initially, he rebuffs her since he is waiting for the prophet to approach.”
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