"Higher up you may see the fountain which they say is sacred to Ares, and they add that a Drakon (Dragon) was posted by Ares as sentry over the spring." they show a place where, it is said, Kadmos (Cadmus) sowed the teeth of the Drakon (Dragon), which he slew at the fountain, from which teeth men came up out of the earth." Kadmos sowed them in the Aonian plain and founded an earthborn clan with all who had escaped the spear of Ares when he did his harvesting." Athene, Lady of Trito, tore the teeth out of the serpent's jaws and divided them between Aeetes and Kadmos, the slayer of the beast. He had come there in his search for Europa, and there he settled, under the guidance of a heifer picked out for him by Apollon in an oracle. The teeth were those of the Aonian serpent, the guardian of Ares' spring, which Kadmos (Cadmus) killed in Ogygian Thebes. "He handed them the deadly teeth that Iason was to sow. As for Kadmos, to atone for the deaths he served Ares as a laborer for an 'everlasting' year, for a year then was equal to eight years now."Īpollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.
Pherelydes says that when Kadmos saw the armed men growing up from the earth, he threw stones at them, and they, believing that they were being hit by each other, started their fight. These proceeded to kill each other, some in voluntary encounters, and others in ignorance.
From this sowing there sprang from the earth armed men, called Spartoi (Sparti). In outrage Kadmos killed the Serpent, and then, following the instructions of Athena, planted its teeth. " sent some of his men to fetch water from the spring of Ares, but a Serpent, said by many to be a child of Ares, guarded the spring and destroyed most of those who had been sent. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES CADMUS, THE ISMENIAN DRAGON & THE SOWING OF THE TEETH Cadmus and the Ismenian Dragon, Chalcidian black-figure amphora C6th B.C., Musée du Louvre § 1, &c.), which, with the exception of some particulars, agrees with the stories in Hyginus ( Fab. This is the account given by Apollodorus (iii. After this Athena assigned to him the government of Thebes, and Zeus gave him Harmonia for his wife. Cadmus was punished for having slain the dragon by being obliged to serve for a certain period of time, some say one year, others eight years. Hereupon, Cadmus slew the dragon, and, on the advice of Athena, sowed the teeth of the monster, out of which armed men grew up, who slew each other, with the exception of five, Echion, Udaeus, Chthonius, Hyperenor, and Pelor, who, according to the Theban legend, were the ancestors of the Thebans. This well was guarded by a dragon, a son of Ares, who killed the men sent by Cadmus. As he intended to sacrifice the cow here to Athena, he sent some persons to the neighbouring well of Ares to fetch water. Cadmus built Thebes, with the acropolis, Cadmea. THE SPARTOI (sown from its teeth) (Apollodorus 3.22, Pausanias 9.10.1, Apollonius Rhodius 3.1179f, Hyginus Fab 178, Ovid Met.
3.874, Nonnus Dionysiaca 4.352) OFFSPRING Ares later avenged his draconic son by transforming Kadmos and his wife into serpents.ĪRES (Apollodorus 3.22, Hyginus Fab. The goddess Athena then instructed him to sow the dragon's teeth, producing a crop of fully-grown, armed warriors called Spartoi (Sparti), five of which became the ancestral lords of Thebes. When the hero Kadmos (Cadmus) arrived seeking to found the city, he slew the monster with a heavy stone. THE DRAKON ISMENIOS (Ismenian dragon) was a giant serpent which guarded the sacred spring of Ares near Thebes. Dragon of Ismenus Cadmus, Harmonia and the Ismenian Dragon, Paestan red-figure krater C4th B.C., Musée du Louvre
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