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Cadmeans

Nomenclature

Greek Name: Καδμεῖος 

Latin Name:

Toponyms:

Cultural Notes

alleged Phoenician immigrants into Greece with Cadmus

Geographical Notes

used to live in Tanagra (part of Boeotia) but were driven out by the Argives

Citations in Herodotos

 1.56,  1.146,  5.57
a Cadmean script:  5.59
once settled at Thebes:  9.27
a "Cadmean victory" one where victors are no better off than vanquished:  1.166

Key Passages in English Translation

 

English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. Retreived from <http://www.perseus.tufts.edu>

Key Passages in Greek

 

Other Testimonia

chased by the Seven against Thebes: Apollod. 3.6.7

Other Commentary


Perseus Encyclopedia:

W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotos:

Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
 

Disambiguation

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