←Galaxy/The codex of Tiresias

Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Tiresias.

On screen

FILM · 1968READ MORE ↗

Oedipus the King

Philip Saville

Orson Welles' Tiresias is the blind seer who will not speak until forced — the prophet who already knows the king's crime.

TELEVISION · 1997READ MORE ↗

The Odyssey

Andrei Konchalovsky

Konchalovsky keeps Tiresias in the underworld Nekyia — the Theban seer who tells Odysseus how to get home, still blind, still certain.

In music & on stage

OPERA · 1927READ MORE ↗

Oedipus Rex

Igor Stravinsky

Stravinsky's Tiresias delivers the oracle in Latin granite — the blind voice that turns the opera-oratorio toward recognition.