CLASSICS 370 Study Guide - Final Guide: Atreus, Symplegades, Calchas
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Slayed a huge serpent that killed his companions. Plowed its teeth into the ground and up sprang armed men. Chapter 17 oedipus and the myths of thebes. Cadmus sent to search for europa and not to return without her. Followed a cow with special markings until it became exhausted (built the city of thebes) (first founding story) sparti- the five men who remained after being sprung from the serpent"s teeth. Cadmus and harmonia - turned into snakes as predicted, and sent by zeus to live in the. Antiope - pregnated by zeus, and mother of amphion and zethus. Dirce and found her two children in the mountains. Dirce held antiope prisoner by locking her in a cell and torturing her. Was tied to a wild bull by amphion and zethus, and was dragged to her death because of what she had done to antiope. Amphion and zethus established thebes (second founding story) Sphinx- before killing her victims, posed a riddle.
