Thursday, February 21, 2008

Teiresias

According to the Greek mythology Teiresias was a blind prophet of Thebes and also a prophet of Zeus. He experienced sex changed sentence by Hera. There are different story on the cause of his blindness. In one of the stories Teiresias was blinded by Athena after he stumbled onto her bathing naked. In a separate episode, Teiresias was believed to be drawn into an argument between Hera and her husband Zeus, on the matter of who has more pleasure in sex: the man, as Hera claimed; or, as Zeus claimed, the woman, as for Teiresias had experienced both due to the sentenced he suffer earlier. He revealed that woman's greatest secret: that she receives the greater pleasure: "Of ten parts a man enjoys one only." Hera instantly struck him blind for his impiety. Zeus could do nothing to stop her, but he did give Tiresias the gift of foresight and a lifespan of seven lives which he participated in fully seven generations at Thebes, beginning as advisor to Cadmus himself.