person
Cadmus
Founder of Thebes, who sowed the dragon's teeth from which armed men sprang; in old age he and his wife were turned to serpents and he went into Illyrian exile.
Reading notes
- Hercules (Mad) §269 Cadmus
Founder of Thebes from the sown dragon's teeth; in exile he and his queen were changed to serpents in Illyria.
- Oedipus §28 Cadmus
Founder of Thebes; the plague is called the 'pestilence of Cadmus' after his royal line.
- Oedipus §709 son of great Agenor
Cadmus, son of the Phoenician king Agenor, who founded Thebes while seeking his stolen sister Europa.
- Oedipus §709 Sidonian stranger
Cadmus again, called Sidonian/Tyrian after his Phoenician homeland.
- The Phoenician Women §121 Assyrian king
Cadmus, founder of Thebes, came from Phoenician Tyre, loosely called 'Assyrian' in ancient usage for the Levant.
- The Phoenician Women §121 Cadmus's grove
The sacred grove of Thebes, once guarded by the serpent of Mars that Cadmus slew at the city's founding.