Theban mythology

ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles

ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles

In Greek mythology, Cadmus (; ) was the legendary Phoenician founder of Boeotian Thebes. He was, alongside Perseus and Bellerophon, the greatest hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. Commonly stated to be a prince of Phoenicia, the son of king Agenor and queen Telephassa of Tyre, the brother of Phoenix, Cilix and Europa, Cadmus traced his origins back to Poseidon and Libya.

In Greek mythology, Semele (; ), or Thyone (; ), was the youngest daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, and the mother of Dionysus by Zeus (her own great-grandfather).

thumb|250px|Statue of Harmonia in the Harmony Society gardens in Old Economy Village, Pennsylvania.

thumb|Paestan lekythos depicting Niobe turning to stone, c. 330 B.C, [[Altes Museum, Berlin]]

thumb|Book frontispiece|Frontispiece of the 1682 edition of [[Molière's highly successful comedy Amphitryon, based on a Plautine comic treatment of the myth of the eponymous hero: the gods Jupiter (Zeus), disguised as Amphitryon and mounted upon an eagle, and Mercury (Hermes) descend from Olympus to meddle in the affairs of the play's human characters.]]

ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles

ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

daughter of Cadmus in Greek mythology

thumb|Iphicles and his half-brother Heracles

In Greek mythology, Iolaus (; Ancient Greek: Ἰόλαος Iólāos) was a Theban divine hero. He was famed for being Heracles's charioteer and squire, and for helping with some of his Labors, as well as for being one of the Argonauts.

mythical daughter of Cadmus

son of Pelops

ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

mythical animal

mythical character, king of Sicyon

Polyxo (; Ancient Greek: Πολυξώ Poluxṓ) is the name of several figures in Greek mythology:

In Greek mythology, Eteoclus (Ancient Greek: Ἐτέοκλος) was the son of Iphis.

son of Talaus and Lysimache in ancient Greek mythology

metonymy for a victory with a drawback

Caanthus is also a synonym of the cylindrical bark beetle genus Ciconissus.

one of the mythical Spartoi of Thebes

lost tragedy by Euripides

In Greek mythology, Polydorus or Polydoros (; ) referred to several different people. Polydorus, son of Phineus and Cleopatra, and brother of Polydector (Polydectus). These two sons by his first wife were blinded by Phineus because of the instigation of their stepmother, Idaea, who accused them of corrupting her virtue. Prince Polydorus, son of the King Cadmus and goddess Harmonia, fathered Labdacus by his wife Nycteis. Polydorus, an Argive, son of Hippomedon and Euanippe, daughter of Elatus. Pausanias lists him as one of the Epigoni, who attacked Thebes in retaliation for the deaths of their

naiad in Greek mythology

Greek mythologial figure, daughter of the Titan Oceanus and consort of Apollo

mythical daughter of Echion