CLA204H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Oedipus The King, Laius, Labdacus
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Thebes leading city of boeotia, ringed by the mountain ranges. Europa = myth of zeus disguised as a bull and took her to crete, child = Europa"s brother, set out to find her and came to delphi to ask apollo for advice. Apollo told him not to worry about europa but to follow a certain cow until she laid down in tiredness to found a city. Cadmus found a cow and she led him to boeotia, where he founded his city cadmeia, later called thebes. It was cadmus" duty to sacrifice her to perform the ceremony, he needed water. He sent his companions to draw from the nearby spring sacred to. A serpent, a child of ares, guarded the spring and killed by cadmus. Athena (who the sacrifice was for) advised cadmus to take the serpent"s teeth and sow them, out from the ground sprang up armed men who fought and killed each other until there were 5 left.
