Editing Tiresias (section)

===Death===
[[Image:Johann Heinrich Füssli 063.jpg|thumb|right|Tiresias appears to [[Odysseus]] during the ''[[nekyia]]'' of ''[[Odyssey]]'' Book XI, in this [[Watercolor painting|watercolor]] with tempera by the Anglo-Swiss [[Johann Heinrich Füssli]], c. 1780–85.]]
Tiresias died after drinking water from the tainted spring [[Tilphussa]], where he was impaled by an arrow of Apollo.<ref>{{Citation |last=Schachter |first=A. |title=Tiresias |date=2016-03-07 |url=https://oxfordre.com/classics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-6479 |encyclopedia=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics |access-date=2023-12-29 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.6479 |isbn=978-0-19-938113-5}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dussol |first=Vincent |date=2016-08-29 |title=Narratives of Secrecy: The Poetry of Leland Hickman |url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2015-4-page-10.htm |journal=Revue française d'études américaines |volume=spécial 145 |issue=4 |pages=10–20 |doi=10.3917/rfea.145.0010 |issn=0397-7870}}</ref> As claimed by [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], the tomb of Tiresias was "ordinarily pointed out in the vicinity" of the Tilphusan Well near [[Thebes, Greece]], while Pliny the Elder wrote that his burial site was located in [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]], marked with a monument.<ref name ="Pliny"/>

His shade descended to the [[Asphodel Meadows]], the first level of [[Greek underworld|Hades]]. [[Persephone]] allowed Tiresias to retain his powers of clairvoyance after death.<ref name="Warner">{{cite book|last=Warner|first=Marina|title=Monuments and Maidens: the allegory of the female form|publisher=Berkeley: University of California Press|date=2000|page=329}}</ref>

After his death, the spirit of Tiresias was summoned from the underworld by [[Odysseus]]' sacrificial offering of a black sheep. Tiresias told Odysseus that he could return home if he was able to stay himself and his crew from eating the sacred [[Cattle of Helios|livestock of Helios]] on the island of [[Thrinacia]] and that failure to do so would result in the loss of his ship and his entire crew. Odysseus' men, however, did not follow the advice and were killed by Zeus' thunderbolts during a storm.<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Odyssey]]|chapter=XI|author=[[Homer]]}}</ref>

The souls inhabiting the underworld were usually required to drink the blood to become conscious again, but Tiresias was able to see Odysseus without drinking the blood. According to historian [[Marina Warner]], it meant Tiresias remained sentient even in death—"he comes up to Odysseus and recognizes him and calls him by name before he has drunk the black blood of the sacrifice; even [[Anticlea|Odysseus' own mother]] cannot accomplish this, but must drink deep before her ghost can see her son for himself."<ref name="Warner"/>