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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 400482, member: 5833"]I think he can be if you want him to be. This man appears to be presiding over a ceremony, not prophesying. Depictions of Tiresias usually show him in the act of witnessing what led to his being struck blind or changed into a woman. The one blind figure you do see is <a href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/historical/homer" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/historical/homer" rel="nofollow">Homer</a>; there are clues to his sightlessness. I doubt very much the first designer of these figures had that much grounding in mythology or neoclassical art.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 400482, member: 5833"]I think he can be if you want him to be. This man appears to be presiding over a ceremony, not prophesying. Depictions of Tiresias usually show him in the act of witnessing what led to his being struck blind or changed into a woman. The one blind figure you do see is [URL='https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/historical/homer']Homer[/URL]; there are clues to his sightlessness. I doubt very much the first designer of these figures had that much grounding in mythology or neoclassical art.[/QUOTE]
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