TIRESIAS

Blind prophet of the Underworld

Tiresias

Blind prophet in the Underworld from Thebes

Prince of Thebes Odysseus was told to see him by the

goddess Kirke After Odysseus talked to Tiresias he

could return to Ithaca Tiresias told Odysseus that he would

encounter Helios's herd on Thrinacia

Tiresias cont.

He told them to avoid the herd but if they didn’t they would die

Then he would return to Ithaca and find suitors eating his food and courting his wife and he would either kill them or send them away

Then he would go find a place where they didn’t know the sea and ate unsalted meat and there he would sacrifice a ram or bull to Poseidon

After he did this he could return home