Cadmus

Reading notes

• The Loves §3.12 Theban seed

  Cadmus, founder of Thebes, who sowed a dragon's teeth from which armed men sprang.

• Letters from the Black Sea §1.3 Cadmus

  Cadmus, son of Agenor, who left Sidon to found Thebes in a better place; another wanderer who prospered abroad.

• The Festivals §6.11 Cadmus

  Founder of Thebes, father of Ino and Semele.

• The Festivals §11 Cadmus

  Tyrian founder of Thebes, exiled from his homeland — one of Carmentis's examples of great men in exile.

• Ibis §14 Sidonian hand

  Cadmus of Sidon, who sowed the dragon's teeth from which armed Sown Men sprang and killed one another.

• Metamorphoses §3.38 Cadmus

  Founder of Thebes, a Phoenician prince sent by his father Agenor to find his sister Europa and forbidden to return without her.

• Metamorphoses §3.49 the unsuspecting daughter of Cadmus

  Semele, daughter of Cadmus, here named by her father; Juno shapes her to her doom.

• Metamorphoses §3.58 his grandfather

  Cadmus, now aged founder of Thebes and grandfather of Pentheus.

• Sorrows §4.3 Cadmus

  Founder of Thebes and father of Semele, who did not disown her after her fiery death.