Cadmeans
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Thebans · citizens · people of Cadmus · the Cadmeans · all the city · citizens of Thebes · ordinary citizen · people of this city · the city · the youth of the Cadmeans
spoken of as
1 expressionCitizens of Thebes“Cadmeans”1 mention
Phoenissae (Greek)
for I stopped marshalling the citizens in pairs of companies around the walls, so that I might hear your arbitration between us, by which you persuaded me to admit this man under truce within the walls.
in the texts
Iliad
People of Thebes, encountered banqueting by Tydeus and later organizing the ambush he defeats.
When they had got as far the deep-meadowed and rush-grown banks of the Aesepos, the Achaeans sent Tydeus as their envoy, and he found the Cadmeans gathered in great numbers to a banquet in the house of Eteokles.
but with that high spirit which was ever present with him, he challenged the youth of the Cadmeans, and at once beat them in all that he attempted, so mightily did I help him.
He left the Achaeans by the banks of the river Aesopos, and went to the city bearing a message of peace to the Cadmeans;
Phoenissae
The Theban citizenry and defending army, mustered under Eteocles to hold the seven gates against the Argive assault.
And all the Argives and the people of Cadmus shouted their approval, as though they thought it just.
They rushed to their weapons, but by some lucky forethought the people of Cadmus had sat down under arms;
and the many heaps of the slain, some from Argive, some from Theban spears, shall cause bitter lamentation in the land of Thebes.
The Histories
Descendants of Cadmus' settlers in Boeotia, twice expelled by the Argives, the second expulsion occurring under Laodamas.
During the rule of this Laodamas son of Eteocles, the Cadmeans were expelled by the Argives and went away to the Encheleis.
The Cadmeans had first been expelled from there by the Argives, and these Gephyraeans were forced to go to Athens after being expelled in turn by the Boeotians.
Nemean
The people of Thebes, descendants of Cadmus, who appear both in the infancy narrative and as hosts honoring visiting victors.
and because in seven-gated Thebes, beside Amphitryon’s splendid tomb, the Cadmeans gladly crowned him with flowers, for the sake of Aegina.
And swiftly the chiefs of the Cadmeans rushed in together in their bronze armor, and Amphitryon came brandishing a sword bared from its scabbard, stricken with sharp distress.
Pythian
The people of Thebes, descendants of Cadmus, described as riding white horses, among whom Iolaus is buried.
when he had cut off the head of Eurystheus with the edge of his sword, he was buried below the earth by the tomb of the charioteer Amphitryon, his father’s father, where he lay as the guest of the Sown Men, having come to dwell in the streets of the Cadmeans, who ride on white horses.
Antigone
The civic body of Thebes, commanded by Creon yet represented as privately sympathetic to Antigone.
Antigone:
All the people of this city of Thebes deny it.
I would not be silent if I saw ruin, instead of safety, marching upon the citizens.
Oedipus Tyrannus
The Theban populace before whom Oedipus wants his polluted identity displayed.
He cries for some one to unbar the gates and show to all the Cadmeans his father’s slayer, his mother’s—the words must not pass my lips— in order to banish himself from the land and not to put the house under his own curse by waiting here.