CLAS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Know Thyself, Skyros, Leucothea
15 Dec 2019
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Know the stories related to thebes, its founda7on and the building of its walls. Cadmos, mythical founder of thebes son of agenor, king of tyre, and brother of europa. Dionysus, he gave him to hermes, who brought him to ino and athamas and convinced them to raise him as a girl. Hera was enraged and cast madness upon them. Athamas hunted down and killed their oldest son, learchos, thinking that he was a deer. Ino threw melicertes into a boiling cauldron, then took him and jumped into the deep with her son"s corpse. Leucothea, and her son is called palaimon, having been given these names by sailors, for the two of them help those caught in storms. Autonoe and aristaios had a son, actaion, who was raised by cheiron and trained to be a hunter, and then later was devoured by his own dogs on mount cithairon.
