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cadmus::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | imaginary being, imaginary creature |
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Cadmus then became king of the Illyrians, but afterwards he was turned into a serpent.
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Cadmus came in the course of his wanderings to Delphi, where he consulted the oracle.
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Cadmus consulted the oracle of Delphi and was advised to travel until encountering a cow.
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Cadmus and his wife Harmonia were actually honored by Dionysus when he turns them into snakes.
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Cadmus and the dragon, black-figured amphora from Euboea, ca.
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Cadmus is also often known to have transformed into a dragon or serpent towards the end of his life.
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Cadmus presented the bride with a robe and necklace, which he had received either from Hephaestus or from Europa.
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Cadmus in exile from Arcadia, took them to Italy, and his mother Carmenta changed them to Latin to the number of 15.
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Cadmus had difficulty selling his work through galleries because of the erotically charged depictions of working and middle class men, which provoked great controversy.
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- (Greek mythology) the brother of Europa and traditional founder of Thebes in Boeotia
- In Greek mythology, Cadmus /u02C8ku00E6dmu0259s/; Greek: u039Au03ACu03B4u03BCu03BFu03C2 Kadmos), was the founder and first king of Thebes. Cadmus was the first Greek hero and, alongside Perseus and Bellerophon, the greatest hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles...
- Cadmus or Cadmos (Greek: u039Au03ACu03B4u03BCu03BFu03C2), was the ancient name for a river that flowed from Mount Cadmus, in ancient Phrygia. The river, probably the modern Gieuk Bonar (in Aydu0131n Province, Turkey), which flows into the Lycus, a tributary of the Maeander. (Hamilton, Researches, &c., vol. i. p. 513.)
- Cadmus was the founder of the ancient city of Cadmeia and gave the Greeks an alphabet.
- Founder and king of Thebes, husband of Harmonia, and father of Agave, Autonoe, Ino, and Semele. As a young man, he slew a dragon and (by Athene's direction) planted its teeth, from which warriors sprang up. ...
- (Greek mythology) The son of Agenor, the king of Tyre. Went to retrieve his sister, Europa, from Zeus, but was told by an Oracle to follow a cow instead. Cadmus was supposed to build a great city in the exact place the cow lay down. A dragon was guarding the spot which was a sacred grove. ...
