CLSA 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Dirce, Laius, Elysium
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Cadmus, one of europa"s brothers, searches for his sister. Delphi: follow a cow with special markings and found a city where the cow will lay down. Cadmus" companions are killed by a dragon. Cadmus defeats the dragon and plants its teeth into the ground. Cadmus throws stones among them; thinking that they are being attacked, the warriors battle each other. Only five survive, the sparti, sown men, ancestors of the aristocratic families in. Cadmus marries harmonia, daughter of ares and aphrodite. Their wedding was one of the most splendid in greek myth. Cadmus and harmonia were ultimately turned into serpents and sent by zeus to live in the elysian fields. A shepherd finds them in the mount cithaeron. He raises them and gives them their names, amphion and zethus. Antiope had be forced to leave thebes because of her shameless behavior. Lycus brings her back and hands her over to his wife, dirce.