Teiresias

Within the supplied sources Teiresias is presented as a mortal granted prophetic sight and authority associated with Apollo. He acts as an enduring prophetic figure in Theban story-cycles, described as having "participated fully in seven generations in Thebes," beginning his recorded public role as advisor to Cadmus, the founder of Thebes. The supplied materials do not provide a cosmogonic creation myth for Teiresias or an etymology of his name; they present him as a long-lived human seer embedded in Theban institutional memory.

The defining physical trait repeatedly attested in the sources is blindness: Teiresias is consistently called a "blind prophet." The tradition also includes a notable episode in which he "was transformed into a woman for seven years," and modern retellings emphasize lived experiences that encompass both sighted and blind states and both male and female embodiments. Beyond blindness and the seven-year female transformation, the supplied materials do not give further fixed details of height, dress, or other bodily marks.

Teiresias is famed for clairvoyance and functions as a prophet of Apollo: his authority and ability to foresee or pronounce the future are explicitly linked to that patronage. He acts as advisor to rulers (notably Cadmus) and as an authoritative mediator or interlocutor in mythic disputes; sources place him in Delphi in the broader divinatory context and in the Underworld encounter tradition (e.g., confronting Odysseus as represented in later literature). He appears in Greek tragedy (Sophocles' Antigone) where his prophetic pronouncements are summoned by rulers (Creon) and serve as pivotal moral and political interventions.