Tiresias, The Blind Prophet!

There are many version of Tiresias if we google it on the internet. However, one of the most interesting versions of Tiresias that I had encounter is that Tiresias had the pleasure of being man and also woman. The story begins as Tiresias was walking in the woods. As he was walking, he saw two giant serpents were mating. He struck it with his staff. And he was transform into a woman. A few years later, he encounters the same incident in the woods. He or it was she at that time did the same thing as before, she struck her staff and she becomes a man one again. He becomes a prophet for Zeus also. It was an incident where Zeus of Hera was arguing about their sex. However, Tiresias sides Zeus and made Hera angry, and blinded him. Zeus had made him his prophet after that incident. Tiresias is an important character in Oedipus Rex is because that he represent knowledge although he is blind. He is also the one who told Oedipus that he was his father’s murderer.