Sown Men
“Spartoi”
group · 5 works · 6 mentions · 11 anchored passages
Spartoi · Sown-men · children of the earth · earth-born crop · earth-born giants · earth-born men · race of the Sown Men · sons of Earth · sons of the dragon's teeth · the Sown Men
spoken of as
2 expressionsSons of Cadmus / Spartoi“sown men”1 mention
Phoenissae (Greek)
and by the counsel of the motherless goddess, he cast the teeth upon the deep fields to fall to the earth, from which the earth brought forth a sight fully-armed, above the surface of the soil;
The Sown Men“Spartoi”1 mention
Orations (Greek)
It would suit his stature and his manliness, if indeed they were fair and kindly in their natures, as this youth is, and not utterly hard and savage, the children of the earth;
in the texts
Phoenissae
The legendary race sprung from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus, of whom Menoeceus is named the last pure-blooded survivor required for sacrifice.
there are enough of the Sown-men who lie dead.
Now you are our only survivor of the Sown race, pure-blooded both on your mother’s and your father’s side, you and your sons.
If the earth receives fruit for fruit and human blood for blood, you shall find her kind to you again, who once sent up to us a crop of Sown-men with golden helmets;
Orations
The mythical armed men sprung from dragon's teeth sown at Thebes, ancestors of the Theban nobility.
It would suit his stature and his manliness, if indeed they were fair and kindly in their natures, as this youth is, and not utterly hard and savage, the children of the earth;
Heracles
The mythic earth-born warriors sprung from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus, ancestors of the Theban people and the aged Chorus.
Who lived here in Thebes, where from the sowing of the dragon’s teeth grew up a crop of earth-born giants;
where the earth-born crop sprang to view, a warrior-host with shields of brass, who are handing on their realm to children’s children, a divine light to Thebes.
—You sons of Earth, whom Ares once sowed, when from the dragon’s ravening jaw he had torn the teeth, up with your staves, on which you lean your hands, and dash out this villain’s brains!
Isthmean
The legendary armed men said to have sprung from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus, ancestors of the Theban nobility.
Or in the Sown Men, untiring with the spear?
Often crowning their hair with wreaths from these contests they appeared beside the streams of Dirce or near the Eurotas, the son of Iphicles, who was of the same city as the race of the Sown Men, and the son of Tyndareus, dwelling among the Achaeans in his highland home of Therapne.
Pythian
The legendary armed men said to have sprung from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus, ancestral Thebans 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.