Description acceptable. The son of a man with this ability tried to escape the Furies after avenging his father by traveling to a silted river, but died while trying to find a necklace for Callirrhoë (“kuh-LIRR-roh-ee”). A man with this ability resided in a cave in Boeotia (“bee-OH-shuh”) whose entrance was marked by a trail of bees after he was sucked into the site of a laurel tree. A man with this ability convinced a wounded Tydeus to devour the brains of Melanippus. In some stories, after hearing the nymph Chariclo’s (“CARE-ick-lo’s”) pleas, Athena granted this ability to a man she had just punished for seeing her bathe. This ability was possessed by Trophonius and one of the Seven Against Thebes, Amphiaraus. A man with this ability witnessed a pair of copulating snakes and was transformed into a woman for the next seven years. For 10 points, name this supernatural ability of Tiresias. ■END■
ANSWER: prophecy [or divination or augury; accept answers such as being able to see or predict the future; accept answers indicating interpreting omens; prompt on divine communication or answers of being able to speak with the gods] (The first line refers to Alcmaeon. The second line refers to Trophonius.)
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