Character: Tiresias Flashcards
1
Q
What did Tireseas say to Oedipus and when ?
A
He was slept with his mother and killed his father (1st episode)
2
Q
What is interesting about the dynamic between Oedipus and Tireseas ?
A
- Although not able to physically see, Tireseas has metaphorical sight
‘Sowed the loins his father sowed, he spilled his fathers blood’ + ‘blind to the corruption of your life’ - Oedipus can physically see but cannot see the truth before him
‘Eyes blind as a stone’
3
Q
What does Tireseas prophecies ? This is not the role of the gods here this is the role of a prophet.
A
Oedipus future blindness
‘ darkness shrouding your eyes that now can see the light’
- foreshadows Oedipus later blinding of himself with the brooches that held Jocastas robe told in vivid detail by the messenger
