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What does Tiresias mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (Greek) A long-lived blind soothsayer who participated over seven generations in the legendary history of (the Greek city) Thebes, noted also for being transformed into a woman for seven years, so being symbolic of androgyny.
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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.
Purposely he changes the word for soul to the masculine, to show that it was Tiresias.
I drew my sword and waved them back until I should question the soul of Tiresias.
Who could have supposed that all this time Tiresias was concocting an epigram on Pluto!
Divination was historically not gender specific but frequently androgynous, as the hermaphroditic figure of Tiresias exemplifies.

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