Teiresias

Who is Teiresias? Why I bother to know about him? It is because we have to learn ‘Oedipus the king’ this semester, so I must know about him. As my lecturer asks me to find out who he really is, I start to google to find out more about him. Now I know that Teiresias appears in several stories and Greek tragedies. According to Wikipedia.com, he is the prophet of Zeus. I know that he is physically blind because I have read about him in ‘Oedipus the king’ but I never know that there are few version of stories behind his blindness. One of the versions said that he was blinded by the gods because he had revealed their secrets and another version said that he was blinded by Athena after he stumbled onto her bathing naked. What an important character he is, right? Before knowing who Teiresias is, I never thought that he is not just like other characters in Oedipus the king’. I never thought the important of Teiresias in Greek stories. But now, after discover about him, I know he is an important character in Greek’s story also in ‘Oedipus the king’.