Tiresias
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Teiresias
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A long-lived blind soothsayer who participated over seven generations in the legendary history of (the Greek city) Thebes, noted also for being transformed into a woman for seven years, so being symbolic of androgyny.
(quote-text)somewhere a ship's radio was blaring out the latest jazz-hit to reach Alexandria:Old Tiresias / No one half so breezy as, / Half so free and easy as / Old Tiresias.
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