The blind prophet... Tiresias

In the play Antigone, Tiresias is one of the most important characters and he acts as a blind seer. He is able to make Creon rethink and yet change his decision to murder Antigone. Actually, there are many tales about individual prophecies of Tiresias. He was the son of Everes and the nymph Chariclo. He was a blind prophet and also the most famous soothsayer of ancient Greece. Reading about it makes me think a lot. It might really happen and it might be not. Well, that’s what we called a legend. Behind each story has its own truth and value. There must be a reason why Tiresias experienced both, living as a man and woman. But, no matter how the stories go, the end of it remains the same. Tiresias had been given a prophecy in compensation. When I first reading about him, I was shocked and never thought that he had experienced life as a woman for seven years! And then changed back to be a man, in fact a prophet. Wow… I wonder how complicated his life would be….. Well, I won’t think too much about it. Just enough for me to know a little bit about his background and his significant role in the play.