Cadmos

In the Greek Mythology, Cadmos (in Greek old Κάδμος / Kádmos ), wire of Agénor (king of Tyr in Phénicie) and of Téléphassa, is the legendary founder of the city of Thèbes (in Béotie).

Myth

It was sent by his father in the search of his sister Europe, who had been removed by Zeus (metamorphosed in bull), with the instruction not to return without her. After a long unfruitful search, it renonça on the council of the Oracle de Delphes. It is said to him that it would meet a cow which it should follow until it lies down; it was there that it should found a new city. The cow led it on the site of Thèbes; when it sent his companions to seek the water of the sacrifice, with a close fountain, they were killed by the dragon which kept it.

Cadmos killed the dragon and, on the instructions of the goddess Athéna, sowed half of its teeth. A harvest of armed men, the Spartes, spouts out ground. Cadmos made them fight the ones against the others by throwing a stone in the middle of them, and they were fought until five of them only survive. These five were regarded as the ancestors of the nobility thebaine.

Zeus gave for wife to Cadmos Harmonie, girl of Arès and Aphrodite, and all the gods attended the wedding. Cadmos gave in present to his wife a collar carried out by Héphaïstos, collar which was to thereafter play a fatal part in the history of Thèbes.

Their daughters, all victims of catastrophes, were Ino, Sémélé, Autonoé and Agavé. Cadmos also generated two wire, Illyrios and Polydore, which inherited the kingdom of Thèbes.

Cadmos ends up abdicating in favor of Penthée, but returned to the capacity after the death of this last. His wife and ended to him up withdrawing herself in Illyrie where they were transformed into snakes and were transported by Zeus in the Elysium.

The marriage of Cadmos and Harmony is celebrated at the time of the mysteries of Samothrace.

Artistic evocations

Cadmus and Hermione is the title of the lyric first Tragédie of Jean-Baptiste Lully.

the Weddings of Cadmos and Harmonie is a literary work of Roberto Calasso. Initial publication the nozze di Cadmo E Armonia , Milan: Adelphi, 1988

Sources

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