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How to use Tiresias in a sentence

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Oedipus orders Tiresias to leave, and Tiresias does so gladly, as he did not want to be there to begin with.
Divination was historically not gender specific but frequently androgynous, as the hermaphroditic figure of Tiresias exemplifies.
I will, therefore, not hesitate to refine such borderlinking listening and lucid gaze, as Tiresias would.
Describing himself in the image of a master of explanation, he would combine the virtues of the Giver with those of the good old Tiresias.
Transcending time and geographies, intransitivity and transitivity, a Tiresias would be a sound exponent.
And there is first-rate support from Chuck Iwuji as the Dionysiac Tydeus, Rakie Ayola as his vengeful accomplice and Bruce Myers as the androgynous Tiresias.
Mudimbe has depicted this by reference to Tiresias, whose liberating art of piercing into the unspeakable is characterised by Sophocles, Euripides, Apollodorus of Athens, Ovid.
One easily imagines an African Tiresias and a Greek Taanda-N-leengi.
Venus entrusts the little girl to the care of Tiresias and warns him not to show Semiramis to anyone since her destiny would be to embody the atrocity of the world bringing tragedy and death.
Odysseus then summoned the spirit of the prophet Tiresias for advice on how to appease Poseidon upon his return home.
An explanation, Tiresias corresponds to accounts, from which what should be explicated could be inferred rationally and that is not to say logically.
Only when the prophet Tiresias foretells of disaster does he fold, and by then the die is cast. Mr van Hove currently has two tragedies in the West End.
According to Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book III, Narcissus's mother was told by the blind seer Tiresias that he would have a long life, provided he never recognized himself.
Master of connotations and denotations, Tiresias incarnates a quest that relies on symbols, a divine capacity for perceiving, and designing the world as another world.
The myth associated with how Tiresias became a hermaphrodite reveals much about relations between the sexes.
While Odysseus was away praying, his men ignored the warnings of Tiresias and Circe and hunted the sacred cattle of the sun god Helios as their food had run short.
Examples from Classical Literature
Who could have supposed that all this time Tiresias was concocting an epigram on Pluto!
I drew my sword and waved them back until I should question the soul of Tiresias.
Tiresias says this is the sole cause of the plague, which is getting worse.
Tiresias says the plague will not stop unless the whole truth is published.
Purposely he changes the word for soul to the masculine, to show that it was Tiresias.
In the course of his career he had the satisfaction of winning the Derby in 1819 with Tiresias.
Veteran baritone William Dooley sings Tiresias without any indication that he was 30 years into his career at this time.
To a mind like that of Tiresias, a pack of cards was full of human nature.
Yet Tiresias is said to have prophesied of Cadmus, and his offspring.
There is a touch of all these qualities, good and bad alike, in Tiresias.
Tiresias came next, in a basalt chariot, yoked to royal steeds.
All the sinners punished here, including figures like Amphiaraus, Tiresias, Aruns, and Eurypylus, have been self-proclaimed prophets, but false ones, in their various ways.
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