Cadmus, son of King Agenor, founded the city of Thebes after encountering many obstacles. He was instructed by the Delphic Oracle to follow a cow and establish a city where it stopped. Cadmus tracked the cow to Boeotia and began to settle but had to slay a dragon guarding a fountain after it killed his men. With divine help, Cadmus defeated the dragon and founded the city of Thebes, naming it after the slain beast.
Cadmus, son of King Agenor, founded the city of Thebes after encountering many obstacles. He was instructed by the Delphic Oracle to follow a cow and establish a city where it stopped. Cadmus tracked the cow to Boeotia and began to settle but had to slay a dragon guarding a fountain after it killed his men. With divine help, Cadmus defeated the dragon and founded the city of Thebes, naming it after the slain beast.
Cadmus, son of King Agenor, founded the city of Thebes after encountering many obstacles. He was instructed by the Delphic Oracle to follow a cow and establish a city where it stopped. Cadmus tracked the cow to Boeotia and began to settle but had to slay a dragon guarding a fountain after it killed his men. With divine help, Cadmus defeated the dragon and founded the city of Thebes, naming it after the slain beast.
The founder of Thebes is known as Cadmus or Kadmos. Cadmus'
father was a king named Agenor and his mother was named Telephone. Cadmus had two brothers, one named Thasos, and the other Cilix, who became king of Cilicia. They had a sister named Europa, who was also carried off by a bull that Zeus, had sent Cadmus, Thasos, and their mother went to look for Europa and stopped in Thrace where Cadmus met his future bride Harmonia. Taking Harmonia with them, they then went to the oracle at Delphi for a consultation. The Delphic Oracle told Cadmus to look for a cow with a lunar sign on either side, to follow where the cow went, and to make sacrifices and establish a town where the bull lay down. After finding the cow, Cadmus followed it to Boeotia, a name based on the Greek word for cow. Where it lay down, Cadmus made sacrifices and started to settle. His people needed water, so he sent out scouts, but they failed to return because they had been killed by Ares dragon who guarded the fountain. It was up to Cadmus to slay the dragon, so with divine assistance, Cadmus slew the dragon, and Thebes was the name of the settlement.