- 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...
-
Thebes with the name "
Cadmeans".
Aeschylus and Sophocles, in particular,
repeatedly mention the "city of Cadmus" and "
Cadmeans",
relating Thebes with...
- 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)...
- 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...
- ancestors:
Achaeus of the Achaeans,
Danaus of the Danaans,
Cadmus of the
Cadmeans (the Thebans), ****en of the ****enes (not to be
confused with
Helen of...
- 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...
- the
founder of the
colony in Thera. All the Aegeïds were
believed to be
Cadmeans, who
formed a
settlement at
Sparta previous to the
Dorian conquest. There...
- with
which they are sympatric. In Gr**** mythology, the
Teumessian fox, or
Cadmean vixen, was a
gigantic fox that was
destined never to be caught. The fox...
- Pre-Gr****
dwellers of
Rhodes Island (mentioned in Iliad's
Catalogue of Ships)
Cadmeans Eteocypriots ("True Cypriots") - They
lived scattered through Cyprus island...
- 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...
