CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Labdacus, Laius, Sophocles

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS104
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Theban saga (these stories are about heroes in the great city of thebes: early history of thebes. But they did have a vague idea of the different generations (history: europa and cadmus. Europa was walking down with her maidens and then all of a sudden they saw a beautiful white bull. All her friends were scared but then she made friends with her. She climbs on his back and then zeus dove into the water to crete and had sex with her. A lot of religions were related to bulls. The young people of crete were really found of bulls. When she goes missing, their father says to go find her since no one has seen her. Then cadmus goes to the oracle at delphi to ask. Zeus tells him that she is fine, don"t worry about her. When you leave this place, you will find a cow that was unattended.