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Cadmus and Harmonia: Serpents The gods Cadmus, the mythological founder of Thebes and his wife, the goddess Harmonia, were both transformed into snakes near the end of Cadmus' life and then transferred to Elysium by the will of Zeus, where they lived together for all time. Calchus: Pig then back a man: Circe
Zeus and the mortal Semele, daughter of Harmonia and Cadmus, the founder and first king of Thebes, produced Dionysus, who married Ariadne, daughter of Minos, king of Crete. Helios and the Oceanid Perseis produced Circe , Aeetes , who became king of Colchis and married the Oceanid Idyia , producing Medea .
She tricked her father into intercourse, but was discovered and fled. After having been on the run for 9 months she asked the gods not to be seen among those alive or dead, and was thus metamorphosed into the myrrh tree. A month later the tree gave birth to Adonis. X: 317-476 [161] Myscelus: Son of Alemon and founder of Crotona. XV: 19-47 [162 ...
His mother was Agave, the daughter of Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, and grandson of the goddess Harmonia. His sister was Epeiros and his son was Menoeceus . Much of what is known about the character comes from the interpretation of the myth in Euripides ' tragic play, The Bacchae .
Harmonia and the serpent. According to one account, she is the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite. [1] By another account, Harmonia was from Samothrace and was the daughter of Zeus and Electra, her brothers were Dardanus and Iasion being the founder of the mystic rites celebrated on the island. [2] [3] Almost always, Harmonia is married to Cadmus.
Semele (/ ˈ s ɛ m ɪ l i /; Ancient Greek: Σεμέλη, romanized: Semélē), or Thyone (/ ˈ θ aɪ ə n i /; Ancient Greek: Θυώνη, romanized: Thyṓnē) in Greek mythology, was the youngest daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, and the mother [1] of Dionysus by Zeus in one of his many origin myths.
Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia, and the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes (in Roman mythology, Jupiter and Mercury respectively), thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia, or theoxenia when a ...
According to some stories, Zeus then turned Io into a heifer in order to hide her from his wife; [5] others maintain that Hera herself transformed Io. [14] [15] In the version of the story in which Zeus transformed Io, the deception failed, and Hera begged Zeus to give her the heifer as a present, which, having no reason to refuse, he did.