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... Tiresias , the blind hermaphroditic prophet , warns first Oedipus in Oedipus Rex , then Cleon in Antigone . Tiresias ' gift of fore- sight allowed him / her to see the character flaws of mortals and predict events that had not yet ...

In these essays, Loraux disturbs the idea of virile men and feminine women, a distinction found in official discourse and aimed at protecting the ideals of male identity from any taint of the feminine.

... Tiresias , an important figure in the Oedipus myth . One aspect of the myth of Tiresias , the variant accounts of how he came to be blind , shows how structural - psychoanalytic analysis can be applied to differ- ent versions of the ...

A comedy in three acts disguised as a Greek tragedy.

... Tiresias also surfaces in narratives of sex change , such as Will Self's Cock and Bull , in which Tiresias appears as the gynecomastic and sexually ambiguous ( and sleazy ) owner of a Greek kebab shop , or on the Web in Christopher ...