The ghost of Laius assumes the form of this person to convince his grandson to go to war in a poem by Statius.
In a dialogue by Lucian, this character tells Menippus that "the life of the ordinary man is the best and most prudent choice." The ghost of Laius assumes the form of this person to convince his grandson to go to war in a poem by Statius. This character died while pausing to drink at the spring of Tilphussa. During the  nekyia   (neh-KOO-yah)  in the  Odyssey , this son of Everes and (*)  Chariclo  (EV-uh-reez  and  CHAR-ik-lo) is the only person to recognize Odysseus before drinking the sacrificial blood. Menoeceus  (men-oh-EE-see-us) commits suicide on the advice of this character, whose daughter Manto was born during a period he spent serving in a temple of Hera. After striking a pair of mating snakes with his staff, this figure spent the next seven years transformed into a woman. For 10 points, name this blind Theban soothsayer.
In a dialogue by Lucian, this character tells Menippus that "the life of the ordinary man is the best and most prudent choice."
Tiresias  [or  Teiresias ]