Tiresias: Greek Mythology's Blind Prophet Explained

Teiresias /teirisi ə s/ also spelled as Tiresias /tairisi ə s/ is a renowned figure in Greek mythology who is known to have gained blind prophecy accidently. Once Tiresias happened to see a pair of snakes copulating (mating) on his way to Mount Cyllene . Young and wayward Tiresias hit upon a mischief and he hit one of the snakes with a stone resulting the death of female snake . The male snake cursed him and immediately; he got transformed into a woman and spent three hundred years as a passionate woman  (some sources claim that he remained a woman for seven ordinary lives and some others seven years only, see the following refence from Metamorphoses 3.316-338) . He saw two serpents intertwined in the green wood… / Raised his staff and struck them apart— / Instantly, became a woman. Seven winters passed / Before he saw the snakes again and reversed the curse.” One day, by chance, he (woman) came across with another couple of snakes mating on the way, hit them with ...