\b0 Son of the Phoenician king Agenor and Telephassa, he was the brother of \b \cf4 \ATXht10516 Europa\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0
, the girl carried off by \b \cf4 \ATXht8 Zeus\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 in the form of a bull. He founded the first nucleus of \b \cf4 \ATXht12006 Thebes\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 and married \b \cf4 \ATXht10802 Harmonia\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , who bore him four unfortunate da
ughters, Autonoδ, \b \cf4 \ATXht10908 Ino\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , \b \cf4 \ATXht10116 Agave\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , and \b \cf4 \ATXht11906 Semele\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 . Toward the end of their lives Cadmus and Harmonia mysteriously disappeared from Thebes, leaving the t
hrone to their grandson \b \cf4 \ATXht11616 Pentheus\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 . It was said that Cadmus brought the alphabet from Phoenicia to Greece.\par