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-----This is just a general question the validity of many of the pieces of information on the pages.....are they valid OR are they filled with innacurate "mumbo jumbo" that does not OR cannot accurately reflect positively truthful information?-----

[edit] Zeus and Hera

If Tiresias agreed with Zeus that women experienced more pleasure during sex, isn't that good news for women? Why would Hera be upset that women got more pleasure? Was she more interested in being correct than receiving more pleasure? Kingturtle 01:28, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Was she more interested in being correct than receiving more pleasure? Yes, basically she was a petty bitch :) Adam Bishop 01:30, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Well, there's that, but there's also the fact that it was additional info for Zeus to use to his advantage when importuning her for sex. Zeus was clearly the more sexually preoccupied of the couple. One gets the impression that Hera really didn't like to "put out"...so Zeus sought his pleasure elsewhere. -- Someone else 01:36, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Moreover, Hera was simply proven wrong. No one likes that, particularly not gods. --Mgreenbe 20:30, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

What the hell? Hera was a "sensuous seductress who heartily approved of sex"? She was in a loveless marriage with Zeus, who was always having affairs and thus she tried to kill his lovers.--60.227.224.150 05:18, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Error in the Article

there is an error in the article "After the Seven Against Thebes battle, Tiresias appears in the tales associated with Oedipus. In Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles, Oedipus calls upon Tiresias to aid in the investigation of the killing of Laius. ". The battle of the seven against thebes is after oedipus lefts the throne to his sons, so how could be oedipus rex be considered to happen "after" the "seven agains thebes"?????

Perhaps that was meant to refer to the fact that the Oedipus plays of Sophocles were written after Aeschylus's "Seven Against Thebes". -- Tms 06:17, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ambiguitiy

Question: The article says, "Tiresias died after drinking the water from the spring Tilphussa, struck by an arrow of Apollo."

Was Tiresias struck by the arrow, or was the spring struck by the arrow? — RPT & CET

[edit] Genesis Reference

The Genesis song "The Cinema Show" is about this legend, I don't really know if that's worth putting on the page or not so I'm posting it here.

[edit] Pron.?

Ty - REE - see - ass or Ti - ri - SIGH - as? Or have I got it all wrong? --62.255.236.54 00:43, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] QE-RA-SI-JA

This section is mostly unreadable, could someone that understands it make it understandable for a layman? IMFromKathlene 21:04, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sources

I can't find anything about how Lady Tiresias was a prostitute of great renown and have tried to find other documents that back up a lot of claims made in this article but have had a difficult time finding anything. There needs to be a lot more citations on this page. IMFromKathlene 21:04, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

I can't locate any of Greek mythology's "many hermaphroditic figures" aside from Hermaphroditus. --Wetman 00:16, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Still no source: I'll remove this asserive bit until someone who has another hermaphrodite in Greek myth pipes up. --Wetman 10:31, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
I happened upon a source here about the great renown http://www.in2greece.com/english/historymyth/mythology/names/tiresias.htm
However, the bit was already back in the article before I checked.--Mizst 14:52, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

"Classical works" changed to "literary classics", to avoid ambiguity of word, "classical" --Ste175 08:49, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Could someone please include that Tiresias appears in Igor Stravinsky´s Opera "Oedipus Rex"? That, I believe merits being on this page...