By later writers she is represented as the patroness of every branch of science, art, and manufacture. […] He was the god of light, prophecy, archery, music, poetry, and of the arts and sciences. […] Later poets make him the inventor of the alphabet, and of the art of interpreting languages. […] In later art he became more youthful. […] Tiresias at first hesitated, but yielding to the earnest solicitations of Œdipus, he said: “Thou art the murderer of the old king, Laius, who was thy father, and thou art wedded to his widow, thine own mother.”