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CADMUS , in See also:Greek See also:legend, son of Agenor, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Phoenicia and See also:brother of See also:Europa. After his See also:sister had been carried off by See also:Zeus, he was sent out to find her. Unsuccessful in his See also:search, he came in the course of his wanderings to See also:Delphi, where he consulted the See also:oracle. He was ordered to give up his quest and follow a cow which would meet him, and to build a See also:town on the spot
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where she should See also:lie down exhausted. The cow met him in See also:Phocis, and guided him to See also:Boeotia, where he founded the See also:city of See also:Thebes. Intending to See also:sacrifice the cow, he sent some of his companions to a neighbouring See also:spring for See also:water. They were slain by a See also:dragon, which was in turn destroyed by Cadmus; and by the instructions of See also:Athena he sowed its See also:teeth in the ground, from which there sprang a See also:race of fierce armed men, called Sparti (sown). By throwing a See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone among them Cadmus caused them to fall upon each other till only five survived, who assisted him to build the Cadmeia or citadel of Thebes and became the founders of the noblest families of that city (See also:Ovid, Metam. iii. r ff.; See also:Apollodorus iii. 4, 5). Cadmus, however, because of this bloodshed, had to do See also:penance for eight years. At the expiration of this See also:period the gods gave him to wife See also:Harmonia (q.v.), daughter of See also:Ares and See also:Aphrodite, by whom he had a son Polydorus, and four daughters, Ino, Autonoe, See also:Agave and Semele—a See also:family which was overtaken by grievous misfortunes. At the See also:marriage all the gods were See also:present; Harmonia received as bridal gifts a peplos worked by Athena and a necklace made by See also:Hephaestus. Cadmus is said to have finally retired with Harmonia to See also:Illyria, where he became king. After See also:death, he and his wife were changed into See also:snakes, which watched the See also:tomb while their souls were translated to the Elysian See also:fields.
There is little doubt that Cadmus was originally a Boeotian, that is, a Greek See also:hero. In later times the See also:story of a Phoenician immigrant of that name became current, to whom was ascribed the introduction of the See also:alphabet, the invention of See also:agriculture and working in See also:bronze and of See also:civilization generally. But the name itself is Greek rather than Phoenician; and the fact that See also:Hermes was worshipped in See also:Samothrace under the name of Cadmus or Cadmilus seems to show that the Theban Cadmus was originally an ancestral Theban hero corresponding to the Samothracian. The name may mean " See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order," and be used to characterize one who introduces order and civilization.
The exhaustive See also:article by 0. See also:Crusius in W. H. See also:Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie contains a See also:list of See also:modern authorities on the subject of Cadmus; see also 0. Gruppe, De Cadmi Fabula (1891).
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