In the end, Cadmus and Harmonia were changed into dragons, and were removed by Zeus to Elysium. After this, Cadmus had another son, whom he called Illyrius. The Cenchelians accordingly made Cadmus their king, and conquered the enemy. This people was at war with the Illyrians, and had received an oracle which promised them victory if they took Cadmus as their commander. Subsequently Cadmus and Harmonia quitted Thebes, and went to the Cenchelians. Cadmus gave to Harmonia the famous πέπλος ( peplos) and necklace which he had received from Hephaestus or from Europa, and became by her the father of Autonoë, Ino, Semele, Agave, and Polydorus. The marriage solemnity was honored by the presence of all the Olympian gods in the Cadmea. After this Athena assigned to him the government of Thebes, and Zeus gave him Harmonia for his wife. According to the Theban legend, they were the ancestors of the Thebans.Ĭadmus was punished for having slain the dragon by being obliged to serve for a certain period of time, some say one year, others eight years. Hereupon, Cadmus slew the dragon, and, on the advice of Athena, sowed the teeth of the monster, out of which armed men grew up - the Spartae. This well was guarded by a dragon, a son of Ares, who killed the men sent by Cadmus. As he intended to sacrifice the cow here to Athena, he sent some persons to the neighboring well of Ares to fetch water. 1Ĭadmus found the cow described by the oracle in Phocis among the herds of Pelagon, and followed her into Boeotia, where she sank down on the spot on which Cadmus built Thebes, with the acropolis, Cadmea. The god commanded him to abstain from further seeking, and to follow a cow of a certain kind, and to build a town on the spot where the cow should sink down with fatigue. Here Telephassa died, and Cadmus, after burying her, went to Delphi to consult the oracle respecting his sister. All researches being fruitless, Cadmus and Telephassa settled in Thrace. When Europa was carried off by Zeus to Crete, Agenor sent out his sons in search of their sister, enjoining them not to return without her. A son of Agenor and Telephassa, and brother of Europa, Phoenix, and Cilix.
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