Kadmos (page 471, with art) – Gantz, Early Greek Myth (1993)

Chapter 14: Thebes

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♦ Berlin, Antikensammlung F2634 (not lost, as Gantz): Attic red-figure hydria with Kadmos, snake, Thebe (on lower right) and other divinities

E. Gerhard, Etruskische und Kampanische Vasenbilder des Königlichen Museums zu Berlin (1843), pl. C.1-5

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♦ Paris, Musée du Louvre CA 1961: Attic black-figure neck-amphora, Kadmos and Harmonia

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Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.1-137

Now Jupiter had not revealed himself,
nor laid aside the semblance of a bull,
until they stood upon the plains of Crete.

But not aware of this, her father bade
her brother Cadmus search through all the world,
until he found his sister, and proclaimed
him doomed to exile if he found her not… Latin Text

Σ Phoinissai (The Phoenician Women) 638 – Scholia in Euripidem, ed. E. Schwartz. Vol. 1, p. 313. Berlin 1887.

Greek Text

ΣA Iliad 2.494 – Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem, ed. W. Dindorf and E. Maass. Vol. I, pp. 112-114. Oxford 1875.

Greek Text

Theogony 937

[Also Cytherea bore to Ares]… Harmonia whom high-spirited Cadmus made his wife. Greek Text

ΣA Iliad 2.494 – Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem, ed. W. Dindorf and E. Maass. Vol. I, pp. 112-114. Oxford 1875

Greek Text

Theognis 15-18 – Iambi et Elegi Graeci 1, pp. 174-75, ed. M.L. West. Oxford 1971

Pindar, Pythian 3.86-96

But a secure life was not granted either to Peleus son of Aeacus or to godlike Cadmus; yet they are said to have attained the highest prosperity of all mortal men, since they heard the Muses of the golden headbands singing on the mountain and in seven-gated Thebes, when Cadmus married ox-eyed Harmonia, and Peleus married the famous daughter of wise Nereus. And the gods held feasts for both of them, and they saw the royal sons of Cronus on their golden seats, and they received wedding gifts. Greek Text

♦ Throne of Apollo at Amyklai (known through Pausanias’ description and modern reconstructions)

Pausanias 3.18.12

There is Peleus handing over Achilles to be reared by Cheiron, who is also said to have been his teacher. There is Cephalus, too, carried off by Day because of his beauty. The gods are bringing gifts to the marriage of Harmonia. Greek Text

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Reconstruction of whole throne by A. Furtwängler, from J.G. Frazer, Pausanias’s Description of Greece, vol. III, Commentary (2nd ed. 1913), p. 352

Diodorus Siculus 5.49.1

This wedding of Cadmus and Harmonia was the first, we are told, for which the gods provided the marriage-feast, and Demeter, becoming enamoured of Iasion, presented him with the fruit of the corn, Hermes gave a lyre, Athena the renowned necklace and a robe and a flute… Greek Text

Diodorus Siculus 4.65.5

Polyneices, they say, gave the golden necklace which, as the myth relates, had once been given by Aphroditê as a present to Harmonia, to the wife of Amphiaraüs, in order that she might persuade her husband to join the others as their ally. Greek Text

ApB 3.4.2 – Apollodoros, Bibliotheke (Library)

After his servitude [to Ares] Athena procured for him [Cadmus] the kingdom, and Zeus gave him to wife Harmonia, daughter of Aphrodite and Ares. And all the gods quitted the sky, and feasting in the Cadmea celebrated the marriage with hymns. Cadmus gave her a robe and the necklace wrought by Hephaestus, which some say was given to Cadmus by Hephaestus, but Pherecydes says that it was given by Europa, who had received it from Zeus. Greek Text

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