Tiresias dies after the defeat of Thebes by the Epigoni, the sons of the warriors who had fallen in the earlier conflict known as the Seven Against Thebes. While fleeing the city, he stops at the Boeotian spring of Tilphussa. According to tradition, the spring had been poisoned. After drinking from it, Tiresias dies.
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