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Teiresias does no such thing. He tells Odysseus all he needs to know.
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Oedipus murdered the former king of Thebes.
A.his journey home will be filled with trouble.
Teiresias tells Odysseus to avoid the herds of Helios cattle on Thrinakia. Teiresisas saw that if Odysseus and men ate the cattle it would bring about their destruction.
That Creon needs to do what Teiresias tells him to is what the chorus leader tells Creon about Teiresias' predictions in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Teiresias the blind prophet announces that the mourning and suffering that goes around all Thebes will come back to the Theban royal household. He cautions that Creon needs to bury Polyneices' body and free Princess Antigone. King Creon does not stop his torrent of insults and threats. But he mentions the predictions to the chorus leader, who says to do what Teiresias says.
Odysseus speaks with the Theban prophet Tiresias, who tells Odysseus how to get home.
He does not know that the person he killed on the road from Corinth was Laius.
After Teiresias reveals the truth to Oedipus, Oedipus initially denies it and accuses Teiresias of being a fraud. As the truth slowly unravels, Oedipus discovers that he is indeed the one who has brought a curse upon the land of Thebes, and he is consumed by guilt and despair.