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• Cadmus — Cadmus, or Kadmos ( el. Κάδμος), in Greek mythology, was a Phoenician prince, [John B. Alden, (1883). The Greek Anthology , pp. 160 162: Cadmus am I: ...though I am Phoenician born, I taught you Greeks your Alpha, Beta, Gamma .] son of Agenor and …   Wikipedia

• Cadmus et Hermione — is a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts by Jean Baptiste Lully. The French language libretto is by Philippe Quinault, after Ovid’s Metamorphoses . It was first performed on April 27, 1673, at the Paris Jeu de Béquet.The prologue, in… …   Wikipedia

• Cadmus — /kad meuhs/, n. Paul, born 1904, U.S. painter and etcher. /kad meuhs/, n. Class. Myth. a Phoenician prince who introduced writing to the Greeks and who founded the city of Thebes in the company of five warriors. Cf. Sparti. * * * In Greek… …   Universalium

• Polydorus (son of Cadmus) — The only son of Cadmus and Harmonia, Polydorus was a king of Thebes, Greece. Upon his father s death, Pentheus, the son of his sister Agave and Echion, one of the Spartoi, ruled Thebes. Pentheus, however, ruled only for a short time, before… …   Wikipedia

• List of Metamorphoses characters — Cover of George Sandys s 1632 edition of Ovid s Metamorphosis Englished This is a list of characters in the poem Metamorphoses by Ovid. It contains more than 200 characters, summaries of their roles, and information on where they appear. The… …   Wikipedia

• List of cultural references in The Divine Comedy — The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is a long allegorical poem in three parts or canticas (or cantiche ), Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise), and 100 cantos, with the Inferno having 34, Purgatorio 33, and Paradiso 33 …   Wikipedia

• Spartoí — In Greek mythology, Spartoí (Greek: Σπαρτοί, literal translation: sown men , from σπείρω speírō to sow ) are a mythical people who were held to be Ares children.partoi in ThebesCadmus arrived in Thebes, Greece after following a cow at the urging… …   Wikipedia

• Semele — otheruses : Stimula redirects here. For the genus of grass skipper butterflies, see Stimula (butterfly).In Greek mythology, Semele, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, was the mortal mother [Although Dionysus is called the son of Zeus (see… …   Wikipedia

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• Semele — /sem euh lee /, n. Class. Myth. a daughter of Cadmus and mother, by Zeus, of Dionysus. Cf. Thyone. * * * In Greek mythology, a daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, and the mother of Dionysus. When Semele became the lover of Zeus, Hera was enraged,… …   Universalium

• Leucothea — /looh koth ee euh/, n. Class. Myth. a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft. Also, Leukothea. [ < Gk: lit., the white goddess] * * * In Greek mythology, a sea goddess. She is first… …   Universalium