Tiresias
Τειρεσίας
The man who cannot see, and knows everything instead.
He struck two entwined serpents with his staff and became a woman; seven years later, the same encounter made him a man again.
Zeus and Hera, arguing over "which sex enjoys love more," called him to settle it — and his answer displeased Hera, who struck him blind. Zeus gave him prophecy and long life in return.
Across three generations of Thebes he appears, telling kings the truth — and no one listens in time.
It was he whom Odysseus descended to the underworld to meet: the one soul whose mind remained whole even in death.
SourcesSophocles, Oedipus Rex; Ovid, Metamorphoses