Tiresias

Tiresias (or Teiresias) was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph Chariclo. He was a seer and prophet of Apollo, who was blinded by the gods for revealing their secrets (or, according to another version, after he stumbled on the goddess Athena bathing naked). He was transformed into a woman for seven years by Hera for striking a pair of copulating snakes and, as a woman, became a priestess of Hera, married and had children (including Manto, who also possessed the gift of prophecy). An alternative version holds that he was drawn into an argument between Hera and her husband Zeus on whether the man took more pleasure in sex (as Hera claimed) or the woman (as Zeus claimed). Tiresias, having experienced both, agreed with Zeus for which Hera instantly struck him blind (although Zeus then gave him the gift of foresight and a lifespan of seven lives). He was responsible for many prophecies in various Greek myths, often gnomic or cryptic, but never wrong. He died after drinking the water from a sacred spring, where he was struck by Apollo's arrow.