Pausanias Analysis
Chapter 9.5
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Chapter 9.5
9.5.1: Early Theban inhabitants and Cadmus' Phoenician settlement.
9.5.2: Cadmeia, the citadel of Thebes founded by Cadmus
9.5.3: Echion and the Sparti—Cadmus' famed sown warriors.
9.5.4: Pentheus, son of Echion, punished by Dionysus
9.5.5: Lycus becomes guardian and ruler of Thebes after Nycteus and Labdacus die.
9.5.6: Amphion and Zethus defeat Lycus and found Thebes.
9.5.7: Amphion builds Thebes' walls by music and adds a fourth lyre string
9.5.8: Amphion receiving Hermes' lyre and using song to move stones and beasts.
9.5.9: Plague and destruction of Amphion and Zethus's house
9.5.10: Oedipus' exposure, killing of Laius, and subsequent marriage to Jocasta
9.5.11: Euryganeia as mother of Oedipus's children.
9.5.12: Polyneices' exile, alliance with Adrastus, and duel with Eteocles.
9.5.13: Battle of Glisas: Laodamas kills Aegialeus but Argives win; he flees to Illyria.
9.5.14: Thersander's tomb at Elaea.
9.5.15: Tisamenos becomes king after Peneleos' death.
9.5.16: Theban royal succession; Andropompus kills Xanthus, prompting rule by many.