Tiresias Blinded

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~ TIRESIAS  or TEIRESIAS
            myth> SON OF EVEREUS & CHARICLO
  AMONG THE GREATEST OF MYTHOLOGICAL PROPHETS
  cont> in addenda under development see> ~& TIRESIAS
  HIS STORY CONCERNS  APHRODITE  PASITHEA  CALE  EUPHROSYNE
  and HOW HERA BLINDED HIM WHICH LED ZEUS TO COMPENSATE HIM
  WITH A LONG LIFE AND THE INSIGHT OF PROPHECY
  cont> in addenda under development see> ~& TIRESIAS
  SOPHOCLES [#] in " OEDIPUS REX "  SPEAKS OF TIRESIAS AND
  HIS FORECAST OF THE FATE OF NARCISSUS
  lit+ " ONE OF THE FIRST WHO TESTED THE TRUTH ...
         ASKED TIRESIAS IF {Narcissus}
  THE BOY WOULD EVER LIVE TO A RIPE OLD AGE
  TIRESIAS ANSWERED YES  IF HE NEVER KNOWS HIMSELF...
  HOW SILLY THOSE WORDS SEEMED ...
  TIME PROVED THEM TRUE
  THE WAY HE DIED                           see> NARCISSUS
  THE STRANGENESS OF HIS INFATUATION...
  from HOMER in ODYSSEY {per BRYANT} [6] and in
       OVID in METAMORPHOSES {per HUMPHRIES}
  cont> in addenda under development see> ~& TIRESIAS
  lit+ " ... GAILY JOKING JOVE SAID                sug> JOVIAL
       YOU WOMEN GET MORE PLEASURE OUT OF LOVE
  THAN WE MEN DO ...  SHE DISAGREED
  SO THEY RESOLVED TO GET THE VIEWS OF WISE TIRESIAS ...
  ASKED THEN TO GIVE HIS JUDGEMENT ON THE JOKE
  HE FOUND FOR JOVE
  JUNO  SO IT IS SAID  TOOK UMBRAGE BEYOND REASON
  OUT OF ALL PROPORTION AND CONDEMNED HER JUDGE TO LIVE
  IN THE BLACK NIGHT OF BLINDNESS EVERMORE
  BUT THE ALMIGHTY FATHER                          sug> PROFESSOR
  SINCE NO GOD HAS RIGHT TO UNDO                   sug> PROFESS
  WHAT ANY GOD HAS DONE                            sug> PROFIT
  FOR HIS LOST SIGHT GAVE HIM THE GIFT TO SEE      sug> PROPHET
  WHAT THINGS SHOULD COME                          sug> ORACLE
  THE POWER OF PROPHECY ... " OVID [#] in Metamorphoses [13] III 326