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1. Tiresias: she/he is a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years. He was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph Chariclo. Tiresias participated fully in seven generations at Thebes, beginning as advisor to Cadmus himself.

                    

2. Oracle: an oracle was a person or agency considered to provide wise counsel or prophetic predictions or precognition of the future, inspired by the gods.

3. Condolence: Condolences are an expression of sympathy to someone who is experiencing pain arising from death, deep mental anguish, or misfortune. Condolence is not always expressed in sorrow or grievance, it can also be used to acknowledge a fellow feeling or even a common opinion.

4. Electra complex: it is a girl’s psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father. In the course of her psychosexual development, the complex is the girl's phallic stage; formation of a discrete sexual identity, a boy's analogous experience is the Oedipus complex.

                    

5. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance ; and a people who means to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both.                                                                                                                                 by   James Madisonc