CLASS 4960 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Hephaestus, Ismene, Spartoi
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Zeus abducts europa in the form of a bull. Europe gets its name from europa: cadmus and harmonia. Cadmus and his men wander all over, eventually come to delphi . Buy and follow a certain cow until it lies down: The cow stops and cadmus found new city of cadmeia . Wishes to sacrifice the cow to athena; sends men for water. So athena tells him to sow the dragons teeth to make spartoi ( sown. Cadmus throws a stone into their midst; fight ensues . Cadmus must serve ares for 8 years for killing his serpent. But labdacus" son, laius, is just an infant. Enter lycus (descendent of spartoi, son of chthonius: sons of antiope (descendant of lycus family) A pregnant antiope flees her angry father, nycteus (lycus" brother) Nycteus kills himself, but not before asking his brother lycus to find and punish antiope. Sons of antiope and zeus abandoned, but rescued by a shepherd.
