Definition of Cadmean. Meaning of Cadmean. Synonyms of Cadmean

- time, which would be around 2000 BC. Herodotus had seen and described the Cadmean writing in the temple of Apollo at Thebes engraved on certain tripods....
- A Cadmean victory (Gr****: καδμεία νίκη, romanized: kadmeía níkē) is a reference to a victory involving one's own ruin, from Cadmus (Gr****: Καδμός), the...
- of Thebes, the Teumessian fox is referred to by the elegant variation Cadmean vixen in James George Frazer's 1921 translation of Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)...
- that was fated never to be caught. To this fox (known sometimes as the Cadmean Fox) the Thebans each month exposed one child in an attempt to prevent...
- the companions of the founder Cadmus all perished—leading to the term "Cadmean victory" (i.e. a victory involving one's own ruin).[citation needed] Three...
- Edwards' character Goose, in Top Gun as well as Phil Coulson in The Avengers. Cadmean victory, in which a sacrificial lamb either loses a battle or dies but...
- Astour. In due course he wrote Black Athena. Bernal also wrote the book Cadmean Letters, devoted to the origins of the Gr**** alphabet. He devoted his next...
- Boeotia I have myself seen cauldrons with inscriptions cut on them in Cadmean characters—most of them not very different from the Ionian. Herodotus estimates...
- condemn it because it is a crime, it is a crime because we condemn it. Cadmean victory Conflict theory Just-world hypothesis Might makes right Parkinson's...
- dictionary. Attrition warfare – Military strategy of wearing down the enemy Cadmean victory – Victory involving one's own ruin Carthaginian peace – Brutal...