Tiresias (disambiguation)
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Tiresias has several meanings:
- In Greek mythology, Tiresias was a blind prophet, the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph Chariclo.
- The Tiresias Algorithm is a DNA analysis algorithm that attempts to decode genes from the bulk DNA found in chromosomes.
- An expert system software tool, TEIRESIAS.
- In typography, Tiresias is a family of typefaces designed to improve legibility for people with impaired vision.
- Tiresias was the pseudonym of Tom Driberg when he set the crosswords in Private Eye magazine.
- A ballet (1950) by Constant Lambert and Frederick Ashton.
- Les mamelles de Tirésias is a surrealist opera by Francis Poulenc.