Teiresias, who is he?

Teiresias was known as a famous prohet in Thebes. There are different stories about the reason of his blindness.
One of the stories telling that Teiresias was blinded by Athena because he accidentally came across her when she was bathing. His mother, Chariclo, a nymph of Athena, begged her to undo her curse, but Athena could not, instead she gave Teiresias the gift of prophecy to compensate for his blindness.
Another type of allusion towards Teiresias’s blindness is in two episodes, recounts Tiresias' sex-change and his encounter with Zeus and Hera. Teiresias was known as a prophet of Zeus. In the first episode, Teiresias was said to come upon a pair of copulating snakes on Mount Cyllene in the Peloponnese, he then hit the pair a smart blow with his stick. His act caused Hera to punish him by transforming him into a woman. As a woman, Teiresias became priestess of Hera, married and had children including Manto, who also own the gift of prophecy. Lady Tearesias was a prostitute of great renown based on some versions of the tale. Tearesias found again a pair of mating snakes after seven years becoming woman. What will she do this time? She will either made sure to leave the snakes alone this time depending on the myth this time or according to Hyginus, she trampled on them. As the result, Teiresias was released from the curse and return to his masculinity.
In another episode, Teiresias was involved in the conflict between Hera and her husband, Zeus on the theme which who more pleasure in sex. Hera claimed that the man enjoy sex more, however, Zeus claimed that woman has more pleasure in sex. Teiresias who had experienced both revealed woman;s greatest secret: that she receives greater pleasure. “Of ten parts, a man enjoys one only.” Hera was unhappy and struck him blind for his impiety. Zeus was unable to stop her but he did give Teiresias the gift of foresight and a lifespan of seven lives.
Teiresias appeared in several stories and Greek tragedies as a mythic prohet. Teiresias appeared with Cadmus, the founder and the first king of Thebes in the Bacchae by Euripides. They warned the current king Pentheus against denouncing Dionysus as a god. Along with Cadmus, he dresses in women’s clothing to go up the mountain to worship Dionysus with the Theban women.
In Sophocles’s “Oedipus the king”, Oedipus asked Teiresisas’s help to investigate the murdered of King Laius. Teiresias, however, at first did not want to reveal the truth that Oedipus is actually the murderer of King Laius. After being provoked by Oedipus’s accusation that he did not have the ability of foresight and he involved in the murder of Laius, Teiresias revealed the fact that it was Oedipus who had killed King Laius. Oedipus threw him out the palace but then realized the truth.
Tereisias died after drinking the water from the spring Tilphussa, where he was struck by an arrow of Apollo. He was visited by Odysseus after his death in the underworld.