Harmonia
mythological figure · 6 works · 7 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Harmonia with the golden hair · children of Harmonia · ox-eyed Harmonia · the Theban goddess
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Pythian
The wife of Cadmus, whose wedding was attended by the gods.
yet they are said to have attained the highest prosperity of all mortal men, since they heard the Muses of the golden headbands singing on the mountain and in seven-gated Thebes, when Cadmus married ox-eyed Harmonia, and Peleus married the famous daughter of wise Nereus.
Come, children of Harmonia, where even now he calls the native host of heroines to assemble, so that you may loudly sing of holy Themis and Pytho and the just navel of the earth, at the edge of evening, in honor of seven-gated Thebes and the contest at Cirrha, in which Thrasydaeus caused his ancestral hearth to be remembered by flinging over it a third wreath as a victor in the rich fields of Pyla …
Bacchae
Wife of Kadmos and daughter of Ares, foretold to be transformed into a serpent and to accompany Kadmos into exile.
Leading their spears, I, having the fierce nature of a serpent, will bring my wife Harmonia, daughter of Ares, to the altars and tombs of Hellas.
changing your form, you will become a dragon, and your wife, Harmonia, Ares’ daughter, whom you though mortal held in marriage, will be turned into a beast, and will receive in exchange the form of a serpent.
Medea
A golden-haired goddess said by the Chorus to have given birth to the nine Muses in Athens.
Sons of Erechtheus, heroes happy from of yore, children of the blessed gods, fed on wisdom’s glorious food in a holy land ne’er pillaged by its foes, ye who move with sprightly step through a climate ever bright and clear, where, as legend tells, the Muses nine, Pieria’s holy maids, were brought to birth by Harmonia with the golden hair;
Phoenissae
Daughter of Cypris (Aphrodite) and wife of Cadmus, ancestress of the Theban royal line.
He married at that time Harmonia, the daughter of Cypris, and begot Polydorus from whom they say Labdacus was born, and Laius from him.
In days gone by the sons of heaven came to the wedding of Harmonia, and the walls and towers of Thebes rose to the sound of Amphion’s lyre, in the midst between the double streams where Dirce waters the grass-green field before Ismenus;
Theogony
Daughter of Ares and Aphrodite, wife of Cadmus, mother of Ino, Semele, Agave, Autonoe, and Polydorus.
and Harmonia whom high-spirited Cadmus made his wife.
And Harmonia, the daughter of golden Aphrodite, bore to Cadmus Ino and Semele and fair-cheeked Agave and Autonoe whom long haired Aristaeus wedded, and Polydorus also in rich-crowned Thebes.