I'm a prophet without honour, the Tiresias of Academe. From Wordnik.com. [A* grades for the kids, a big F for their teacher – me] Reference
We're very old school, Jocasta's brother, Creon (Jose Joaquin Perez), says at one point, referring to the barrio's belief system that accepts as gospel the premonitions of soothsayers, such as the blind Tiresias (Gerard Ender), who steals Oedipus away and raises him as his own in prison. From Wordnik.com. [Theater review: 'Oedipus el Rey' at Woolly Mammoth] Reference
The APE claims to exactly understand our predicament, present and future, and he counsels the hoi polloi with a degree of certainty unmatched since the days of the blind seer, Tiresias I use the gendered pronoun intentionally: for some reason – possibly because men are more prone to intellectual hubris than women – almost every APE is a "he". From Wordnik.com. [Please stop patronising us Greeks | Apostolos Doxiadis] Reference
And like Tiresias, I can change genders if I so desire. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Pobo Interview] Reference
Tiresias and Cassandra were my two favorite characters from that period. From Wordnik.com. [Full Frontal Nudity] Reference
Tiresias was an old blind guy who could “see” clearer than anyone else. From Wordnik.com. [Full Frontal Nudity] Reference
The title referred to the character Tiresias who appears in many Greek tragedies. From Wordnik.com. [Full Frontal Nudity] Reference
Not only did Tiresias live, he recovered his ability to fly. From Wordnik.com. [Hail Tiresias] Reference
Tiresias lived at the museum for many years beyond the span of most ferrugs. From Wordnik.com. [Hail Tiresias] Reference
Homer has Odysseus cross the Acheron to meet Tiresias, I believe, and Virgil mentions it also. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Rivers and Words:] Reference
It is a different Ferrug and also how I imagine Tiresias looking as he hunts in the Summerlands. From Wordnik.com. [Hail Tiresias] Reference
It took the hawk a few tries to test the limits of the long jess, but eventually, Tiresias learned to be flown. From Wordnik.com. [Hail Tiresias] Reference
What we know of Tiresias is that his body was built for self-reliance and sight, and he had lost both completely. From Wordnik.com. [Hail Tiresias] Reference
For Tiresias, the wide world from horizon to horizon that he had always known was now shrunk down to the physical limits of his body and the sounds of unseen people approaching. From Wordnik.com. [Hail Tiresias] Reference
So when Tiresias was swept up in the invisible storm of a windmill and smashed down hard enough to literally have his eyes knocked out, he and the rest of the natural world assumed he would just die with no one to care. From Wordnik.com. [Hail Tiresias] Reference
And the one who saw Tiresias fall brought him to the hospital at the Lindsey Wildlife Museum where the medical staff cleaned his wounds and drained his now empty eye sockets, gave him fluids and left him in blessed solitude overnight to pass out of this life as peacefully as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Hail Tiresias] Reference
The mythological figure of Tiresias, who figures in the Oedipus cycle as well as the Odyssey, was a sequential hermaphrodite, having been changed from a man to a woman and back by the gods. From Wordnik.com. [Marcos Craps His Pants! Alleged Sandy Wells Attacker Arrested] Reference
Only Marxism can give us an adequate account of the essential mystery of the cultural past, which, like Tiresias drinking the blood, is momentarily returned to life and warmth adn allowed once more to speak, and to deliver its long-forgotten message in surroundings utterly alien to it. From Wordnik.com. [swoonrocket] Reference
Tiresias 24 February 2011 3:55PM bigfacedog 24 February 2011 3:56PM. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Tiresias 28 February 2011 9:39AM chibaken1971 28 February 2011 9:39AM. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
We don’t know who had the idea originally, but at some point someone took Tiresias for a short glide in the park next to the museum. From Wordnik.com. [Hail Tiresias] Reference
New York: Tiresias Press, 1994. From Wordnik.com. [Shock of Gray] Reference
Alas, this is not a picture of Tiresias, himself. From Wordnik.com. [Hail Tiresias] Reference
Till I should hear Tiresias. From Wordnik.com. [Ezra Pound] Reference
A sheep to Tiresias only, black and a bell-sheep. From Wordnik.com. [Ezra Pound] Reference
I wonder who their Tiresias will be?. From Wordnik.com. [Week 20: Language Is a Virus from Outer Space] Reference
This comment was written by Tiresias. From Wordnik.com. [Survey: Would you change sex?] Reference
59 ‘Light on the goal and darkness, on the way,/Light all through night and darkness all through day’, Swinburne’s ‘Tiresias’ in Songs Before Sunrise, the Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, ed. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies] Reference
Tiresias 22 February 2011 9:37AM. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Tiresias 28 February 2011 11:56AM. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Tiresias said. From Wordnik.com. [Personally Speaking 2 : In The Loop] Reference
Tiresias was blind. From Wordnik.com. [Week 20: Language Is a Virus from Outer Space] Reference
Tiresias Writes. From Wordnik.com. [Survey: Would you change sex?] Reference
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