- The Cadmea, or
Cadmeia (Gr****: Καδμεία, Kadmía), was the
citadel of
ancient Thebes, Greece,
which was
named after Cadmus, the
legendary founder of Thebes...
- to gain
entrance to the city for his troops. Once inside, he
seizes the
Cadmeia (the
citadel of Thebes), and
forces the anti-Spartan
party to flee the...
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Remains of the
Cadmeia, the
citadel of Thebes...
- the Gr**** city of Thebes, the
acropolis of
which was
originally named Cadmeia in his honour. He is also
credited with the
foundation of
several cities...
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secure entrance to the city for his troops. Once inside, he
seized the
Cadmeia (the
Theban acropolis), and
forced the anti-Spartan
party to flee the city...
- the
Phoenician alphabet and
building the Acropolis,
which was
named the
Cadmeia in his
honor and was an intellectual, spiritual, and
cultural center. Thebes...
- Dionysus, who was the son of his aunt Semele, and
forbade the
women of
Cadmeia to
partake in his rites. An
angered Dionysus caused Pentheus'
mother Agave...
-
Semele is the
palace that
occupied the
acropolis of Thebes,
called the
Cadmeia. When
Pausanias visited Thebes in the 2nd
century CE, he was
shown the...
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believed that the
couple had two children,
Neoptolemus II of
Epirus and
Cadmeia (named for her brother's
defeat of the
Theban revolt which began by attacking...
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Ruins of the
Cadmeia, the
central fortress of
ancient Thebes...
