Cadmus, the king of Thebes, abdicated due to his old age in favor of his grandson Pentheus.

Cadmus was of ultimately divine ancestry, the grandson of the sea god Poseidon and Libya on his father's side, and of Nilus ( the River Nile ) on his mother's side ; overall he was considered a member of the fifth generation of beings following the ( mythological ) creation of the world:

Labdacus was a grandson of Thebes ' founder, Cadmus.

The speaker is Actaeon, grandson of Cadmus, who came to an end somewhat similar to that of Hyas.

Buddy leaves his Project Cadmus laboratory job and assisted by Una, attempts to rescue his daughter and grandson.

Aphrodite, who married Hephaistos, nevertheless had an affair with Ares to have Eros ( Love ), Phobos ( Fear ), Deimos ( Cowardice ), and Harmonia ( Harmony ), who would later marry Cadmus to sire Ino ( who with her son, Melicertes would become a sea deity ), Semele ( Mother of Dionysos ), Autonoë ( Mother of Actaeon ), Polydorus, and Agave ( Mother of Pentheus ).

The old men Cadmus and Tiresias, though not under the same spell as the Theban women ( who include Cadmus ' daughters Ino, Autonoe and Agave, Pentheus ' mother ), have become enamored of the Bacchic rituals and are about to go out celebrating when Pentheus returns to the city and finds them dressed in festive garb.

The production was eventually fashioned into an independent feature film which, interestingly, featured Will Shepherd — the Pentheus of Richard Schechner's Dionysus in ' 69 — in the role of Cadmus.

Ino, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, had an end just as tragic as her siblings: Semele died while pregnant with Zeus ' child, killed by her own pride and lack of trust in her lover ; Agave killed her own son, King Pentheus, while struck with Dionysian madness, and Actaeon, son of Autonoe, the third sibling, was torn apart by his own hunting dogs.

* One of the surviving Spartoi, the " sown men " that sprang up from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus ; " it was Echion who, for his great valor, was preferred by Cadmus to be his son-in-law :" Echion was father of Pentheus ( see Spartes ).

In The Bacchae, by Euripides, Tiresias appears with Cadmus, the founder and first king of Thebes, to warn the current king Pentheus against denouncing Dionysus as a god.

* Book III: Cadmus, Actaeon, Echo, Narcissus, and Pentheus ;

Echion later married Agave, the daughter of Cadmus, and Pentheus their son succeeded Cadmus as king.

Unique masks were also created for specific characters and events in a play, such as The Furies in Aeschylus ’ Eumenides and Pentheus and Cadmus in Euripides ’ The Bacchae.

Teiresias and Cadmus try to propitiate Dionysus but Pentheus attacks the god who tells him the story of the Tyrsenian pirates.

After Superboy # 69 of that series, the dog went to live at Cadmus.

Each of the Greek ethne were said to be named in honor of their respective ancestors: Achaeus of the Achaeans, Danaus of the Danaans, Cadmus of the Cadmeans ( the Thebans ), Hellen of the Hellenes ( not to be confused with Helen of Troy ), Aeolus of the Aeolians, Ion of the Ionians, and Dorus of the Dorians.

To propitiate Ares, Cadmus took as a bride Harmonia, daughter of Ares ' union with Aphrodite, thus harmonizing all strife and founding the city of Thebes.

He is acquitted on all counts when Luthor claims to have been kidnapped by renegade scientists from Cadmus Labs, who replaced him with a violent clone that is allegedly responsible for all the crimes with which Luthor is charged.

Starting with Cadmus et Hermione, Lully and his librettist Quinault created tragédie en musique, a form in which dance music and choral writing were particularly prominent.

Theseus was a founder-hero, like Perseus, Cadmus, or Heracles, all of whom battled and overcame foes that were identified with an archaic religious and social order.

Cadmus was credited by the ancient Greeks ( Herodotus is an example ) with introducing the original Alphabet or Phoenician alphabet -- phoinikeia grammata, " Phoenician letters " -- to the Greeks, who adapted it to form their Greek alphabet.

Cadmus did not journey alone to Samothrace ; he appeared with his " far-shining " mother Telephassa in the company of his brother, who gave his name to the island of Thasos nearby.

The wedding was the first celebrated on Earth to which the gods brought gifts, according to Diodorus and dined with Cadmus and his bride.

At Thebes, Cadmus and Harmonia began a dynasty with a son Polydorus, and four daughters, Agave, Autonoë, Ino and Semele.

The " Wedding of Cadmus and Harmonia " is considered as a conceptual symbolic coupling of Eastern ( Phoenician ) learning with Western ( Greek ) love of beauty.

He subsequently married Ino, daughter of Cadmus, with whom, he had two children: Learches and Melicertes.

Homer calls her " Ino-Leocothea of the beautiful ankles, daughter of Cadmus, who was once a mortal speaking with the tongue of men, but now in the salt sea-waters has received honor at the hands of the gods ".

If Aristaeus was a minor figure at Athens, he was more prominent in Boeotia, where he was " the pastoral Apollo " and was linked to the founding myth of Thebes by marriage with Autonoë, daughter of Cadmus, the founder.

Along with Cadmus, he dresses in women's clothing to go up the mountain to worship Dionysus with the Theban women.

Those who described Harmonia as a Samothracian related that Cadmus, on his voyage to Samothrace, after being initiated in the mysteries, perceived Harmonia, and carried her off with the assistance of Athena.

Cadmus presented the bride with a robe and necklace, which he had received either from Hephaestus or from Europa.

The spring was guarded by a dragon, which slew many of the men before Cadmus killed it with his sword.

At the marriage of Cadmus and Harmonia, Demeter lured Iasion away from the other revelers.

In Greek mythology, the name of Illyria is aitiologically traced to Illyrius, the son of Cadmus and Harmonia, who eventually ruled Illyria and became the eponymous ancestor of the Illyrians.

Semele (;, Semelē ), in Greek mythology, daughter of the Boeotian hero Cadmus and Harmonia, was the mortal mother of Dionysus by Zeus in one of his many origin myths.

There was a fourth figure, Elektra's daughter, Harmonia, whom Cadmus took away as a bride, as Zeus had abducted Europa.

Another Samothracian connection for Cadmus is offered via his wife Harmonia, who is said by Diodorus Siculus to be daughter of Zeus and Electra and of Samothracian birth.

Cadmus and his wife Harmonia were actually honored by Dionysus when he turns them into snakes.

His mother was Agave, the daughter of Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, and the goddess Harmonia.

In her mortal self, Ino, the second wife of the Minyan king Athamas, the mother of Learches and Melicertes, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia and stepmother of Phrixus and Helle, was one of the three sisters of Semele, the mortal woman of the house of Cadmus who gave birth to Dionysus.

In Greek mythology, Agave (;, Agauē, " illustrious ") was the daughter of Cadmus, the king and founder of the city of Thebes, Greece, and of the goddess Harmonia.

She had been persuaded by Polynices, who offered her the necklace of Harmonia, daughter of Aphrodite, once part of the bride-price of Cadmus, as a bribe for her advocacy.

Almost always, Harmonia is the wife of Cadmus.

When Cadmus was obliged to quit Thebes, Harmonia accompanied him.

When the government of Thebes was bestowed upon Cadmus by Athena, Zeus gave him Harmonia.

At the marriage of Cadmus and Harmonia, Iasion was lured by Demeter away from the other revelers.

* Polydorus ( son of Cadmus ), son of Cadmus and Harmonia, and father of Labdacus by his wife Nycteis, daughter of Nycteus.