Cadmos
Family: Phenician · Role: source of Melampus's knowledge · First appears: Book 2 · §44–50
Life events
- Melampus learned matters concerning Dionysos from Cadmos and his companions.(Book 2 · §44–50 · 📍 Boeotia)
- With: Melampus
- “but I think it most probable that Melampus learnt the matters concerning Dionysos from Cadmos the Tyrian and from those who came with him from Phenicia to the land which we now call Boeotia.”
- Dionysos was born to Semele, the daughter of Cadmos.(Book 2 · §144–149)
- Cadmos and his companions introduced letters and other arts to the Hellenes.(Book 5 · §52–62 · 📍 Boeotia)
- “these Phenicians who came with Cadmos, of whom were the Gephyraians, brought in among the Hellenes many arts when they settled in this land of Boeotia, and especially letters”
- Gelon sent Cadmos with money and conditional proposals to await the war’s outcome.(Book 7 · §163–169 · 📍 Delphi)
- With: Gelon
- “he sent Cadmos the son of Skythes, a man of Cos, with three fifty-oared galleys to Delphi, bearing large sums of money and friendly proposals, to wait there and see how the battle would fall out”
- Cadmos voluntarily placed the government of Cos in the people’s hands and departed.(Book 7 · §163–169 · 📍 Cos)
- “had voluntarily and with no danger threatening, but moved merely by uprightness of nature, placed the government in the hands of the people of Cos and had departed to Sicily”
- Cadmos took Zancle from the Samians and newly colonised the city, renamed Messene.(Book 7 · §163–169 · 📍 Sicily)
- “where he took from the Samians and newly colonised the city of Zancle, which had changed its name to Messene.”
- Cadmos returned to Sicily with the entire sum of money entrusted to him by Gelon.(Book 7 · §163–169 · 📍 Sicily)
- With: Gelon
- “he also returned to Sicily bringing back with him the whole sum of money.”
Book 2 · §44–50
- pupil: Melampus “but I think it most probable that Melampus learnt the matters concerning Dionysos from Cadmos the Tyrian and from those who came with him from Phenicia to the land which we now call Boeotia.”
Book 2 · §144–149
- child: Semele (Cadmos is Semele's parent.) “Now the Dionysos who is said to have been born of Semele the daughter of Cadmos, was born about sixteen hundred years before my time,”
Book 4 · §143–150
- parent: Agenor “Cadmos the son of Agenor in his search for Europa put in to land at the island which is now called Thera”
Book 5 · §52–62
- child: Polydoros (son of Cadmos) “this inscription would be of an age contemporary with Laïos the son of Labdacos, the son of Polydoros, the son of Cadmos.”
Book 7 · §163–169
- parent: Skythes “Cadmos the son of Skythes, a man of Cos”
- with Gelon (Gelon dispatched Cadmos as an envoy.) “he sent Cadmos the son of Skythes, a man of Cos, with three fifty-oared galleys to Delphi, bearing large sums of money and friendly proposals”
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Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.