天界人体经典少儿英文故事带翻译：泰瑞西斯

2021年1月11日发(作者：邢丕绪)

经典少儿英文故事带翻译：泰瑞西斯

Tiresias was a blind, darkseeing prophet（先知） of
Thebes. He was struck with blindness in his youth, because he
had spied unwittingly on the goddess Athena. He was wandering
in the woods one day when quite unexpectedly he saw anaked
maiden1 bathing in a placid2 lake. Little did he know that he
had offended the virgin3 goddess. Taken unaware4 and scarlet5
with wrath6（愤怒） , the goddess exclaimed that whoever had
the boldness to steal a glance at her naked body was doomed7
to perpetual（永久的） blindness. But when she learned later
that the offence was unintentional, it was too late for her
to take back what she had said. Taking pity on the poor youth
for the loss of his sight, she obtained from Zeus an
exceptional long life for him, and from Apollo a divine（神圣
的） power of prophecy. Besides, she provided him with a
marvellous sharpness of ear, so that he could understand the
voices of all birds. And she filled his mind with mystic
knowledge of things past and of things to come. In short she
gave him quite an amount of her own wisdom. He was the first
to recognise and welcome Dionysus, god of feast and wine, on
the The ban land. When the infant Heracles caught Hera's two
serpents（巨蛇） in its hands, it was Tiresias who cast the
child's fortune and revealed the divine origin and destiny of
the boy. When Oedipus abused Tiresias as having had a hand in
the murder of Laius, Tiresias had the fearless courage to
tell the truth that Oedipus was the murderer. Even in the
lower world he continued to prophesy8. There he helped
Odysseus when the hero came to him for advice. Alive, he was