Open AccessTiresias o el adivino como mediador
Author(s) -
Carlos García Gual
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
emérita/emerita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8384
pISSN - 0013-6662
DOI - 10.3989/emerita.1975.v43.i0.963
Subject(s) - philosophy
After some considerations about the structural studies on Mythology, the author studies the peculiarities and anecdotes of the character of Teiresias in the mythical tradition. He tries to show how these data, referred to a basical system of oppositions, characterize the social position and function of the soothsayer in archaic times, when he was not just a religious officer, but an ambiguous character of the historical saga