The Royal House of Thebes
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nlynch on March 1, 2010
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An overview of the household established by Cadmus and Harmonia, and the curse that plagues their descendants, including Oedipus and Antigone
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Chemistry Honors - Winter Park High School
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| Sophocles |  Greek writer of tragedies; author of Oedipus Rex and Antigone |
| Apollodorus | wrote the initial tale of Cadmus and his daughters |
| Europa | Cadmus' sister; carried off by a bull (Zeus in disguise) to Crete |
| Delphi | home of the great Greek oracle to Apollo, a Greek temple |
| Cadmus | Founder of Thebes |
| Thebes | an ancient Greek city in Boeotia, ruled by Oedipus and destroyed by Alexander the Great in 336 BC |
| Herodotus | the ancient greek known as the father of history |
| Harmonia | Wife of Cadmus; daughter of Ares and Aphrodite |
| Semele | mother of Dionysus; perished before the unveiled glory of Zeus |
| Ino | stepmother of Phrixus; becomes a sea-goddess |
| Leucothea | Ino's new name |
| Acteon | Son of Autonoe; changed into a stag by Artemis; attacked and killed by his own hounds. |
| Pentheus | Killed by his own mother after she, driven mad by Dionysus, believed he had turned into a lion. |
| Oedipus | great-great grandson of Cadmus; cursed to kill his father (Laius) and marry his mother (Jocasta) |
| Apollo | God of Truth; whatever his priestess at Delphi said would come to pass infallibly came true. |
| The Sphinx | A winged creature, shaped like a lion, with the head and breasts of a woman; posed a riddle to all travelers and killed and devoured those who could not answer it |
| The "Pride of Thebes" | The city's seven (7) great gates |
| Laius | Oedipus' birth father |
| Polybus | Oedipus' adoptive father, king of Corinth |
| Jocasta | Oedipus' mother - and his wife |
| Teiresias | old, blind prophet who reveals the shocking truth of Laius' murder to Oedipus |
| Antigone | Oedipus' daughter; accompanied him out of Thebes when he was expelled from the city |
| Ismene | Antigone's sister, who remains in Tebes to look after Oedipus' interests after he is expelled |
| Merope | Wife of Polybus, and adoptive mother of Oedipus |
| "swollen-footed" | Meaning of Oedipus' name, because of the condition his feet were in after he was abandoned |
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