Most of the reign of this city's mythical king Labdacus was actually overseen by the regents Nycteus and Lycus. After leaving this city, one of its kings became the ruler of the Enchelei. A queen of this city was deified under the name Leucothea after leaping into the sea holding her son Melicertes. No king of this city appears in the Iliad due to Telephus's earlier killing of Thersander. The walls of this city were built
Most of the reign of this city's mythical king Labdacus was actually overseen by the regents Nycteus and Lycus. After leaving this city, one of its kings became the ruler of the Enchelei. A queen of this city was deified under the name Leucothea after leaping into the sea holding her son Melicertes. No king of this city appears in the Iliad due to Telephus's earlier killing of Thersander. The walls of this city were built using the magic lyre-playing of (*) Amphion, who co-ruled it with his brother Zethus. This city, the subject of an epic by Statius, was founded by a man who followed a cow marked with a half-moon to a spot near the Ismenian spring, where he killed a dragon and sowed its teeth to produce the Spartoi. For 10 points, name this Boeotian city founded by Cadmus, which under Eteocles fought an army led by Polynices and six others.
Most of the reign of this city's mythical king Labdacus was actually overseen by the regents Nycteus and Lycus.
Thebes [or Thebai]