What i came to find about Tiresias is that long time ago, people said that he was once a prince of Zeus who encountered with two snakes mating which he then hit the female snake and then was transformed into a woman. For seven years, he lived his live as a woman, then married and had children. One day he met the same serpents again, mating and then got transformed into a man this time. Since his experience with both sexes, Zeus and Hera was arguing whether man enjoy sex better or woman enjoy sex better. Zeus said that woman enjoy sex better and Hera on the other hand said that man enjoy sex better. This has made Hera angry and immediately on the spot blinded Zeus.

There is also another version of how Tiresias was blinded. It is said that in this version, Tiresias was blinded by Athena because he watched Athena bathing naked. Due to this, she closed Tiresias eyes with her hands and as a result his eyes got blinded. Hearin this, Tiresia's mother asks Athena to forgive her son on what he has done and restore his eyesight back but to bad since Athena said that she is unable to do what she has done, Athena cleansed Tiresias. Overall this is a bit of the history of Tiresias. This particular character can be seen in some of the Greek plays epecially 'Oedipus the King' and 'Antigone' which is both written by Sophocles. In both of this plays, Tiresias has played quite an important role. If we look at 'Oedipus the King' by Sophocles, he has played the role of a messenger who told Oedipus about the truth that he is his father's killer. On the other hand in 'Antigone', Tiresias warned the King that is Creon that he is actually bringing his own disasters upon Thebes by not giving Polyneices a proper burial and also not punishing Antigone.

What can be said about Tiresias is that he is regarded as a person who plays an important role in Greek plays.