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