- 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)...
-
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- dictionary.
Attrition warfare –
Military strategy of
wearing down the
enemy Cadmean victory –
Victory involving one's own ruin
Carthaginian peace – Brutal...
- 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...
- with
which they are sympatric. In Gr**** mythology, the
Teumessian fox, or
Cadmean vixen, was a
gigantic fox that was
destined never to be caught. The fox...
- 7–27, 358. ISSN 1824-7601. ProQuest 1550519312. Bernal,
Martin (1990).
Cadmean Letters: The
Transmission of the
Alphabet to the
Aegean and
Further West...
