Greek Tragedy

Polydorus (son of Cadmus)

Also known as: Polydorus · Family: Thebes · Role: ancestor of Laius · First appears: Sophocles, King Oedipus — Scene 2

Sophocles, King Oedipus — Scene 2

  • younger kin: Laius “Of Laius, son to Labdacus, and heir To Polydorus and to Cadmus old,”

Euripides, The Phœnician Virgins — Scene 1

  • parent: Cadmus “who in former time having married Harmonia, daughter of Venus, begat Polydorus;”
  • younger kin: Labdacus “from him they say sprung Labdacus, and from him Laius.”
  • child: Labdacus “from him they say sprung Labdacus”

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