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Founder of Thebes, in myth
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cadmus
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In Greek mythology , Cadmus ; Kadmos ), was the founder and first king of Thebes . Cadmus was the first Greek hero and, alongside Perseus and Bellerophon , the greatest hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles . Initially a Phoenician prince, ...
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n. (context Greek mythology English) A Phoenician prince, son of king Agenor of Tyre. Was sent by his royal parents to seek and return his sister Europa after being abducted from Phoenicia by Zeus. Credited with founding Greek city of Thebes and inventing ...
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Aeetes gave them for the contest the fell teeth of the Aonian dragon which Cadmus found in Ogygian Thebes when he came seeking for Europa and there slew the--warder of the spring of Ares.
Cadmus and Zochrey Cargus were seized and hustled away, Cadmus cursing and calling over his shoulder.
If Cadmus off-Droad thought that the assertion of his claims would excite only a nominal response, the immediate convergence of the Droad kindred upon Droad House must have come as a dampening surprise.
At noon Cadmus Droad showed his bulk briefly on one of the upper balconies.
Behind lumbered Cadmus off-Droad, a four-foot cutlass in one hand, a six-pound cudger gun in the other.
My kindred at once surrounded Droad House and Ramus Ymph became a prisoner, along with Cadmus off-Droad.
I know the pattern now, but I have to find out who Cadmus and Cilix and the others were.
Joseph, and still other cities whose names have never been heard by the people--of France--even as Phoenicia, in the wanderings of her adventurous son, Cadmus, became the mother of Thebes and the godmother of Greek culture and of European literature.
Amphion: Of Cadmus, which that was the firste man, That Thebes built, or first the town began, And of the city first was crowned king.
I think I know the pattern now, but I have to find out who Cadmus and Cilix and the others were.
And Agenor's son, Cadmus, sowed them on the Aonian plains and founded an earthborn people of all who were left from the spear when Ares did the reaping.
Illyrian river, where is the tomb of Harmonia and Cadmus, dwelling among the Encheleans.
Palamedes and Simonides added some letters to the alphabet brought, according to tradition, by Cadmus to Greece, and Cadmus suffered the doom of those who sow dragon's teeth, as France has suffered, but still is his name kept in the memory of every school child.
He's made himself Cadmus and thrown down dragons' teeth and soldiers are springing from the floor !
The blood royal of Cadm' and Amphion: Of Cadmus, which that was the firste man, That Thebes built, or first the town began, And of the city first was crowned king.