Cadmus, or Kadmos (Greek: Κάδμος), in
Greek mythology, was the son of
Agenor and the brother of
Phoenix,
Cilix and
Europa. He is the grandfather of the Greek god
Dionysus, through his daughter
Semele. Cadmus founded the city of
Thebes, and its
acropolis was originally named
Cadmeia in his honor. Cadmus was credited by the Hellenes with the introduction of the
Phoenician alphabet, phoinikeia grammata.
Herodotus who gives this account estimates that Cadmus lived sixteen hundred years before his time, or around
2000 B.C. According to Greek myth, Cadmus' descendants ruled at Thebes on-and-off for several generations, including the time of the
Trojan War. For a discussion of the mythical kings of Thebes, see
Theban kings - Greek mythology. The Greek journalist
Ch. Papachristopoulos identifies the legend of Cadmus with the real story of the Nobelist writer
Albert Camus.
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