cadmus in English

noun
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the brother of Europa and traditional founder of Thebes in Boeotia. He killed a dragon that guarded a spring, and when (on Athena's advice) he sowed the dragon's teeth, there came up a harvest of armed men; he disposed of the majority by setting them to fight one another, and the survivors formed the ancestors of the Theban nobility.

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1. Thebes grew into a strong city and Cadmus had wed Harmonia, daughter of Mars and Venus.Life was good until an unfortunate accident caused the death of Actaeon, Cadmus' grandson.One day the young Actaeon was out …

2. The mythic backstory for the Bacchae is the relationship between Semele, the daughter of Cadmus, king of Thebes, and Zeus

3. Boeotia a region of ancient Greece, of which the chief city was Thebes, according to legend founded by Cadmus

4. Words That Rhyme With "Sadness" : 2 syllables: anas, annas, Awedness, badness, blackness, broadness, Cadmus, crabbedness, crudeness, deadness, drabness, eyedness

5. It was in the time of Ogyges though, that a flood devastated Boeotia, possibly the Great Deluge linked with Deucalion and Pyrrha; and hence Cadmus …

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7. Actaeon was said to be the son of the minor rustic god Aristaeus, discoverer of honey and Autonoe, the daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia

8. Actaeon, in Greek mythology, son of the minor god Aristaeus and Autonoë (daughter of Cadmus, the founder of Thebes in Boeotia); he was a Boeotian hero and hunter

9. 1 In Greek Mythology 2 Appearance 3 Personality 4 Skills 5 Synopsis 6 Trivia Bellerophon was known by the Ancient Greeks as "the greatest hero and slayer of monsters, alongside Cadmus and Perseus, before the days of Heracles"

10. When Cadmus and his companions came up with her, there was the Brindled cow taking her ease, chewing her cud, and looking them quietly in the face; as if this was just the spot she had been seeking for, and as if it were all a matter of course.