CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Seven Against Thebes, Adrastus, Polynices
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Tiresias: seer of thebes, descended from spartoi, hesiod: lived for seven generations, seer in death, blind. Friend, do not mourn for him, since many other gifts form my hand await him for your sake: i will make him a prophet celebrated in songs of posterity, and one greatly surpassing all the rest. He will understand birds, which are holy, which take wing without meaning, and those whose ights bode ill. Many oracles will he deliver to the boiotians, many to cadmos and later to the mighty descendants of. I will grant him a great staff that will direct his step as he needs and a life that shall end in the distant future. And when he dies, he alone will move about the dead with awareness, honored by might hagesilas. callimachus. The seven against thebes: eteocles and polyneices (sons of oedupis and jocasta, in the versions where he has children with his mother)
