CLA204H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Laius, Dirce, Pentheus
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Cla204- chapter 18: oedipus and the myths of thebes. The founding of thebes: cadmus and the dragon. Two separate stories were told of its foundation. One was of europa, the phoenician princess who disappeared over the sea on the back of a bull o. Her father, agenor, ordered his sons, including cadmus, to search for their sister and not to return w/o her. All the brothers gave up search except for cadmus but was unsuccessful o. Cadmus went to delphi where the pythia told him to give up- he would never find europa. He told her to follow a cow w. markings, the cow became exhausted and laid down cadmus did this and built thebes on the hill o. Wishing to sacrifice the cow to zeus (or athena), cadmus sent companions to a nearby spring, sacred to ares, to get water for the sacrifice o o.
