myth, legend/saga, folktale: see ML pp. 3-4

 

definition of the 'hero': ML pp. 372-73

 

'cycles': ML p. 373-74

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Thebes, in Boeotia (see map ML pp. xviii-xix)

Cadmeia = Thebes

Spartoi ("Sown Men")

Lycus & Dirce

       Antiope

       Amphion and Zethus

Sophocles

       Oedipus Tyrannus

       Oedipus Coloneus

 

Sphinx ('strangler')

 

Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus)

Tiresias