>Now here is a man who knows his mythology. And your line about Paris made me smile.
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>I left Tiresius off my list. He was not one of the major characters like Zeus or Apollo but he turned up repeatedly in Greek theater. He had done something to anger the gods and they exacted retribution. They blinded him and they also gave him a curse -- that he would be able to foresee the future but no one would believe him.

The not believing part was a common theme and blindness was also a common job risk... see Cassandra et others.
And who would have believed in the early nineties that Apple stock would fight on nearly equaö terms with MS stock...

>He was the one who met Oedipus at a crossroads and told him he would kill his father and marry his mother. "Get out of town, Tiresius, you knucklehead." But what happened?

I remember Tiresias from Odysseus visit to the underworld. Not sure if it was him who told Oedipus his future, but he fought a silly fight with his real father and killed him honestly, went on to become the king of Thebes and later on realizes the true state of affairs [ie the hag in his bed is really his mother].
According to the oddysey he only gets rid of the hag [makes sure that she kills herself], according to other stories he turns upon himself
kills himself and his sons kill each other in a war for the throne, which was another great story/drama back then. Not sure if those sons were from his mother or by another wife, but it would keep it more in the family.

Those greeks sure did not go for happy endings - from the top of my head only Perseus and his girl [Andromeda ?] lived happy ever after. Some gained a good afterlife as stars [probably permanent demigod], but flat-earth life was hard on those heroes. And good endings in plays often were reached only by deus ex machina, which goes to show that men by themsselves just could not hack it.

But the above would make Tiresias Godfather to Freud's best known idea, has he was the first to know all about it ;-)
"Tiresisias" became a catch all name for seer - there were other stories in different periods.