Tiresias of Thebes — the blind prophet who in Greek myth was struck sightless by Hera for seeing her bathing, given prophetic compensation by Zeus, and lived as both man and woman across a transformation — is one of the strangest figures in the classical pantheon. Sophocles uses him in Oedipus Rex. Homer brings him up from Hades for Odysseus in Odyssey XI. The editors gesture briefly at him as one in the lineage of attested historical prophets. Tiresias was probably never historical; what survives is a literary-mythic figure whose recurring presence in Greek tragedy itself testifies to the cultural importance of the blind seer archetype.