#Zeus Apollo and Hera really didn’t like that Tiresias did they

[gods-favorite-autistic]

One of my fav Greek myths has gotta be Tiresias if y’all will let me ramble for a bit

iirc one version says that Tiresias (born a woman) asked Apollo for the gift of prophecy in return for sex, Apollo granted her the gift, Tiresias didn’t have sex with him, so Apollo proceeded to turn her into a dude, then at some point in the future for unspecified reasons (prolly cuz he was mad) Zeus turned Tiresias back into a woman, then at some point in the future later Hera for also unspecified reasons turned Tiresias back into a man, and also at some point Tiresias (prolly male at this time) saw Athena bathing and Athena’s response was to make him blind,

In another version Tiresias was born male, saw two snakes having sex, got so pissed off about it that he hit the girl snake with a stick, which pissed off Hera so bad that she turned him into a girl, which Tiresias then lived as for seven years (like she got married and gave birth and everything), then she saw the same snakes I think having sex again and either hit the guy with a stick or just left them alone and got turned back into a dude, at some point after Zeus and Hera were arguing about whether dudes or girls had a better time during sex so they asked Tiresias because he’d been both and Tiresias said the guy and Hera got so mad she blinded him and Zeus felt so bad he gave him the gift of prophecy

And then in both versions he drank contaminated water that fucking killed him (cuz Apollo)

So yeah just an all around wild time for that guy