He was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph Chariclo. Eighteen allusions to mythic Tiresias, noted by Luc Brisson , [2] fall into three groups: the first recounts Tiresias' sex-change episode and later his encounter with Zeus and Hera; the second group recounts his blinding by Athena; the third, all but lost, seems to have recounted the misadventures of Tiresias. Like other oracles , how Tiresias obtained his information varied: sometimes, he would receive visions; other times he would listen for the songs of birds, or ask for a description of visions and pictures appearing within the smoke of burnt offerings or entrails, and so interpret them. Pliny the Elder credits Tiresias with the invention of augury. On Mount Cyllene in the Peloponnese , [4] as Tiresias came upon a pair of copulating snakes, he hit the pair with his stick. Hera was displeased, and she punished Tiresias by transforming him into a woman. As a woman, Tiresias became a priestess of Hera, married and had children, including Manto , who also possessed the gift of prophecy.

For whom is sex more pleasurable, men or women? And if you had to, which would you forgo for a year, sex — or bacon? The answers depend not only on whom you ask, but also on what you mean exactly by sex and how you feel about bacon. To explore these questions, I consulted two dependable sources: modern science and Greek mythology. Some time later, Zeus and Hera asked Tiresias to settle a dispute over the question of who had more pleasure during sex.

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