Overview
Character Name
Tiresias
Show
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Mature Adult, Elderly
Role Size
Supporting
Dancing
Non Dancer
Voice
Tenor
Time & Place
Ancient Thebes, immediately following the civil war between Antigone’s brothers, Eteocles and Polynices
Analysis
The blind prophet Tiresias is one of the pivotal supporting figures of Antigonae. His arrival in Act IV shifts the trajectory of the drama, as he delivers the gods’ warning to Creon: dishonoring Polynices and punishing Antigone have enraged the divine order, and disaster
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