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TEIRESIAS , in Greek legend, a famous Theban seer, son of Eueres and Chariclo. He was a descendant of Udaeus, one of the men who had sprung up from the serpent's teeth sown by Cadmus. He was blind from his seventh year, for whichvarious causes were alleged. Some said that the gods had blinded him because he had revealed to men what they ought not to know. Others said that Athena
mother
Athena
spring ; but there was a cenotaph of him at Thebes, and also in later times his " observatory
Homer (Od. x. 492, xi. 90), Teiresias was the only person in the world of the dead whom Proserpine allowed to retain his memory and intellect unimpaired, and Circe sends Odysseus to consult him concerning his return home . He figured in the great
Polygnotus
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