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Tiresias
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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Tiresias a blind Theban prophet, so wise that even his ghost had its wits and was not a mere phantom. According to some legends, he spent seven years as a woman. He was said to have been asked by Zeus and Hera whether a man or a woman derived more pleasure from the act of love; when he answered that a man did, Hera blinded him, but Zeus gave him in recompense a gift for unfailing prophecy.
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Sony Licenses the Tiresias Screenfont from Bitstream.
Business Wire; 10/15/2001; 700+ words
; ...Visual Products Europe to integrate the Tiresias Screenfont, the standard font endorsed...entered into an agreement to license the Tiresias Screenfont, the standard font endorsed...Platform). Sony will incorporate the Tiresias Screenfont in its MHP digital platforms...
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Bitstream and RNIB Release New Tiresias Screenfont.
Business Wire; 2/6/2001; 700+ words
; ...announced today a new release of the Tiresias Screenfont. This new release replaces...previous version. The RNIB developed the Tiresias Screenfont in response to a need for...Video Broadcasting) has adopted the Tiresias Screenfont as the standard font for the...
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"Tiresias".(Reseña de película)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 5/16/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...estricto y acadmico de Robert Bresson. Tiresias (Francia, 2003), adaptacin moderna...cuenta. Como todos los mitos, el de Tiresias posee varias versiones; la ms conocida...mito y enfatiza la connotacin edpica (Tiresias aparece en tragedias como la de Edipo...
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TIRESIAS AND THE JUSTICES: USING INFORMATION MARKETS TO PREDICT SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
Magazine article from: Northwestern University Law Review; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...1185 C. Moving into the Future: Tiresias as a Bridge...of this kind, which we propose naming Tiresias,4 should lead to more accurate forecasts...III analyzes possible design models for Tiresias, including an open market with tradable...
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Tiresias.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Prairie Schooner; 6/22/2002; ; 424 words
; Tiresias If she came with a branch of tamarind...husbands-half-strangers, if your snake, Tiresias, could be one and my sex were unfolding...rice for the new strangers, tell me, Tiresias, if only that my having you could be...
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Fanfare for a Joyful Occasion. Concerto for Flute and Winds.1/Tiresias: Suite/Eine kleine Posauenmusik2
Magazine article from: Fanfare; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Concerto for Flute and Winds' LAMBERT Tiresias: Suite. SCHULLER Eine kleine Posauenmusik2...five ballets, the last of which was Tiresias (1950/51). The Suite, using a large...and the entry of the young, virile Tiresias. "The Entry of the Warriors" has strong...
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RNIB and Bitstream Release Three New Tiresias Fonts; New Release Includes a Family of Typefaces Designed for Legibility On Screens, Signs, and Labels.
Business Wire; 1/3/2001; 700+ words
; ...RNIB) announced today the release of a new family of typefaces for the visually impaired. The Tiresias family now includes Tiresias PCfont, Tiresias Infofont, and Tiresias Signfont, as well as the previously released Tiresias Screenfont. The...
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Tiresias Speaks: Sarah Winnemucca's Hybrid Selves and Genres
Magazine article from: Legacy; 4/30/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...and an Indian woman can tell. (2) As a participant in both white and Paiute communities, Winnemucca -- like the mythical Tiresias -- is said to be able to speak the "truth" of each.(1) But for whom is this knowledge spoken? If she is indeed a...
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Tiresias/Teresa: a "man-made-woman" in Ovid's Metamorphoses 3.318-38.
Magazine article from: Helios; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...The Human-Not-Quite-Human(1) Tiresias is rare among the characters of the Metamorphoses...copulating snakes with his staff--Tiresias is assumed to have direct knowledge of...Jupiter says women do, Juno disagrees--Tiresias is called in as arbiter: forte Iovem...
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Apollinaire et Les Mamelles de Tiresias. La revanche d'Eros.
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Apollinaire et Les Mamelles de Tiresias. La revanche d'Eros. By Peter Read...Apollinaire in the preface to Les Mamelles de Tiresias, his extraordinary play premiered some...but also the significance of the Tiresias myth as exemplar of a primordial unification...
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Tiresias
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
Tiresias Tiresias, a blind prophet, appears in many Greek myths. Several tales account...as a boy when he saw Athena* bathing. Later Athena felt sorry for Tiresias but could not restore his sight. Instead, she gave him the gift of...
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‘Tiresias’
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
‘Tiresias’, a dramatic monologue in blank verse by Tennyson , published in 1885, but composed in 1833. The prophet Tiresias, blinded and doomed to ‘speak the truth that no man may believe’ as a consequence...
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Hera
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
...dispute, Hera and Zeus agreed to consult Tiresias, a mortal who had been both male and female. Tiresias sided with Zeus, claiming that women had...Enraged by his answer, Hera blinded Tiresias. Zeus compensated Tiresias for his loss...
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Odyssey, The
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
...he must visit the underworld and consult the blind prophet Tiresias before returning to his homeland. Reluctantly and full of...spirits of Agamemnon*, Achilles*, and other Greek heroes. Tiresias told Odysseus what to expect and do during the rest of his...
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Seers
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
...by fathering children. The best-known seer of Greek mythology was Tiresias, who had been blinded by the gods. According to some stories, Zeus...Cassandra; Delphi; Druids; Freyja; LaocoÖn; Mimir; Sages; Tiresias.
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