CLAA06H3 Lecture 9: Lecture 9 - The Myth of Oedipus and the Myths of Jason
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Lecture 9 - the myth of oedipus and the myths of jason. Thebes, in boeotia, north west of attica. Two foundation stories for thebes: cadmus and the dragon, amphion and zethus. Phoenician king agenor asks his sons (cilix, phoenix, cadmus) to go and search for their lost daughter europa. Cadmus at delphi he would never find europa, but he should follow a cow and found a city where the cow stops. Founds thebes on a hill in southern boeotia. Slays a man-killing serpent at a spring sacred to ares and is punished by ares to serve for him for eight years. Cadmus and the dragon, red-figure crateer, 4th c. bc. Athena tells cadmus to sow the teeth of the dragon (the sparti, armed men rise up from the earth, fought with each other and the five remaining were the ancestors of the house of thebes)
