Definition of Cadmean. Meaning of Cadmean. Synonyms of Cadmean

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Cadmean. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Cadmean and, of course, Cadmean synonyms and on the right images related to the word Cadmean.

Definition of Cadmean

No result for Cadmean. Showing similar results...

Meaning of Cadmean from wikipedia

- time, which would be around 2000 BC. Herodotus had seen and described the Cadmean writing in the temple of Apollo at Thebes engraved on certain tripods....
- A Cadmean victory (Gr****: καδμεία νίκη, romanized: kadmeía níkē) is a reference to a victory involving one's own ruin, from Cadmus (Gr****: Καδμός), the...
- of Thebes, the Teumessian fox is referred to by the elegant variation Cadmean vixen in James George Frazer's 1921 translation of Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)...
- that was fated never to be caught. To this fox (known sometimes as the Cadmean Fox) the Thebans each month exposed one child in an attempt to prevent...
- Astour. In due course he wrote Black Athena. Bernal also wrote the book Cadmean Letters, devoted to the origins of the Gr**** alphabet. He devoted his next...
- the companions of the founder Cadmus all perished—leading to the term "Cadmean victory" (i.e. a victory involving one's own ruin). Three medical symbols...
- Boeotia I have myself seen cauldrons with inscriptions cut on them in Cadmean characters—most of them not very different from the Ionian. Herodotus estimates...
- 7–27, 358. ISSN 1824-7601. ProQuest 1550519312. Bernal, Martin (1990). Cadmean Letters: The Transmission of the Alphabet to the Aegean and Further West...
- & John Vanderslice". the Mountain Goats. Retrieved 2024-05-31. "Cadmean Dawn". Cadmean Dawn. Retrieved 2024-05-31. Charlie Jane Anders and Cyriaque Lamar...
- dictionary. Attrition warfare – Military strategy of wearing down the enemy Cadmean victory – Victory involving one's own ruin Carthaginian peace – Brutal...