What does Tiresias tell Odysseus

What does Tiresias tell Odysseus

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Tiresias was mainly a blind seer within Apollo who provides a prophecy to Odysseus related to the future and end of his journey. The seer had also stated that the voyage home of Odysseus will provide various hardships and difficulties. He had also provided a warning related to grazing the herds of Helios. The seer had mentioned the arrogant who had been eating food and was seeing his wife and the sacrifice that was made to Poseidon. The prophecy of Tiresias played an important role in Odyssey and this leads to successful ending of the journey of Odysseus towards his inherent island located in Ithaca. Prophecy made by the seer mainly provided warning related to the troubles which were faced by the team of Odysseus. Many troubles have occurred as Odysseus had blinded Cyclops who was the son of Poseidon. The predictions were made by Tiresias regarding the Helios’ meeting while grazing the herds on Thrinakia. The seer provided an advice to Odysseus to the avoid the herds and eating them in any case. Another prophecy made by Odysseus was related to his arrival to his home. Odysseus had met some bold, crude and arrogant men who were the suitors eating from Odysseus’ table and were also courting his wife. Tiresias had also provided an indication related to the ways by which Odysseus can remove the suitors from his faithful wife’s life. Final words that were spoken by the seer were related to the concerns about a trip to the land where anybody did not have knowledge regarding Odysseus’ identity. The suitor had suggested that Odysseus needs to sacrifice himself towards Poseidon with the aim of dying in peace. The prophecy provided by Tiresias in this case was related to a stranger and his activities leading to the death of Odysseus.