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On Mount Cyllene in the Peloponnese, [3] [note 1] Tiresias came upon a pair of copulating snakes and hit them with his stick, which displeased goddess Hera who punished Tiresias by transforming him into a woman. As a woman, Tiresias became a priestess of Hera, married and had children, including his daughter Manto who also possessed the gift of ...
Tiresias was a Theban oracle who, according to tradition, was changed into a woman after striking a pair of copulating snakes with a rod, and was thereafter a priestess of Hera. [ 2 ] Veiled head of Manto (left) and a Thessalian horse rider inscribed on a 3rd-2nd century coin (right)
Idyll XXIV, also called Ἡρακλίσκος (Heracliscus; 'The Little Heracles'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. [1] [2] This poem describes the earliest feat of Heracles, the slaying of the snakes sent against him by Hera, and gives an account of the hero's training.
He was then transformed into a woman. As a woman, Tiresias became a priestess of Hera, married, and had children, including Manto. After seven years as a woman, Tiresias again found mating snakes; depending on the myth, either she made sure to leave the snakes alone this time, or, according to Hyginus, trampled on them and became a man once more.
Legendary blind prophet Tiresias. [44] These: A hero who is the equivalent of Theseus. Thethis: The Greek nymph Thetis, mother of Achilles. [1] Tuntle: The legendary figure, known to the Greeks as Tyndareus. [52] Tute: The Greek hero Tydeus. [52] Tyrrhenus: An Etruscan culture hero and twin brother of Tarchon. Umaele
'avenger of bloodshed' [1]) is the daughter of Alcmaeon, Argive hero and one of the Epigoni, and Manto, the daughter of Tiresias. As an infant Tisiphone was given to the care of the royal couple of Corinth, but as she grew up the queen sold her as slave, jealous of her great beauty. Tisiphone was eventually reunited with her birth family.
A characteristic of Homer's style is the use of epithets, as in "rosy-fingered" Dawn or "swift-footed" Achilles.Epithets are used because of the constraints of the dactylic hexameter (i.e., it is convenient to have a stockpile of metrically fitting phrases to add to a name) and because of the oral transmission of the poems; they are mnemonic aids to the singer and the audience alike.
Odysseus in the Underworld Krater [1] Odysseus, seated between Eurylochos and Perimedes, consulting the shade of Tiresias; to left Eurylochos wearing pilos and chlamys. Side A from a Lucanian red-figured calyx-krater. [2] Hermes (on the left) asking Paris to arbitrate the contest between Athena, Aphrodite and Hera.