Harmonia

Family: Theban · Role: wife of Cadmus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.4

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Harmonia) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Harmonia)

After Cadmus’s servitude, Zeus gave Harmonia to him as wife, and the gods celebrated their marriage in the Cadmea. Harmonia was the daughter of Aphrodite and Ares, and with Cadmus she was parent to Ino, Semele, Agave, Autonoe, and Polydorus.

Afterwards, Zeus transformed Harmonia and Cadmus into serpents and sent them to the Elysian Fields: “But afterwards he was, along with Harmonia, turned into a serpent and sent away by Zeus to the Elysian Fields.”

Relationship record

Life events

• Zeus gave Harmonia as Cadmus's wife, and the gods celebrated their marriage in the Cadmea.(Apollodorus, Library 3.4 · 📍 the Cadmea)
  • With: Cadmus Zeus
  • “After his servitude Athena procured for him 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.”
• Zeus transformed Cadmus and Harmonia into serpents and sent them to the Elysian Fields.(Apollodorus, Library 3.5 · 📍 Elysian Fields)
  • With: Cadmus Zeus
  • “But afterwards he was, along with Harmonia, turned into a serpent and sent away by Zeus to the Elysian Fields.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.4

• married with Cadmus “Zeus gave him to wife Harmonia, daughter of Aphrodite and Ares.”
• parent: Aphrodite “Harmonia, daughter of Aphrodite and Ares.”
• parent: Ares “Harmonia, daughter of Aphrodite and Ares.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.5

• married with Cadmus (Cadmus and Harmonia are presented as a couple.) “But Cadmus and Harmonia quitted Thebes and went to the Encheleans.”
• with Zeus (interaction) “But afterwards he was, along with Harmonia, turned into a serpent and sent away by Zeus to the Elysian Fields.”

Hesiod, Theogony 869-975

• married with Cadmus “Harmonia whom high-spirited Cadmus made his wife”
• child: Ino “bare to Cadmus Ino and Semele and fair-cheeked Agave”
• child: Semele “bare to Cadmus Ino and Semele and fair-cheeked Agave”
• child: Agave “bare to Cadmus Ino and Semele and fair-cheeked Agave”
• child: Autonoe “and Autonoe whom long haired Aristaeus wedded”
• child: Polydorus “and Polydorus also in rich-crowned Thebe”
• parent: Ares “Also Cytherea bare to Ares the shield-piercer Panic and Fear, terrible gods who drive in disorder the close ranks of men in numbing war, with the help of Ares, sacker of towns: and Harmonia whom high-spirited Cadmus made his wife”

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