1. Tiresias was a blind, dark seeing prophet of Thebes.

2. When Oedipus abused Tiresias as having had a hand in the murder of Laius, Tiresias had the fearless courage to tell the truth that Oedipus was the murderer.

3. This large print title is set in Tiresias 16pt font as recommended by the RNIB.

4. Tiresias has been summoned and arrives, wishing that he has not done so.

5. He is Lear, Romeo, Oedipus, Tiresias; he has stepped out of a play and even the woman he loves is Rosalind, Cleopatra, never The Dark Lady.

6. Tiresias , as a woman, once again encounters two mating snakes. After hitting them with his stick, he is changed back into a man. (Detail of a 16th-century woodcut).

7. An old blind seer, Tiresias by name, was brought before the king and, outraged by the kings impolite language, declared that Oedipus himself was the hunted murderer.

8. When the infant Heracles caught Hera"s two serpents in its hands, it was Tiresias who cast the child"s fortune and revealed the divine origin and destiny of the boy .