-
Thebes with the name "
Cadmeans".
Aeschylus and Sophocles, in particular,
repeatedly mention the "city of Cadmus" and "
Cadmeans",
relating Thebes with...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- ancestors:
Achaeus of the Achaeans,
Danaus of the Danaans,
Cadmus of the
Cadmeans (the Thebans), ****en of the ****enes (not to be
confused with
Helen of...
- dictionary.
Attrition warfare –
Military strategy of
wearing down the
enemy Cadmean victory –
Victory involving one's own ruin
Carthaginian peace – Brutal...
- the
founder of the
colony in Thera. All the Aegeïds were
believed to be
Cadmeans, who
formed a
settlement at
Sparta previous to the
Dorian conquest. There...
-
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...
