A king of this city received a curse on his family for abducting Chrysippus, a son of Pelops. While battling before this city, Tydeus defeated Melanippus and ate his brains. A princess from this city burnt to death after asking to see the full glory of Zeus; that mother of Dionysus, Semele, was the daughter of a man who produced a strange crop of fully-armed (*) men by sowing serpent's teeth in the soil of this city. A king of this city, Laius, died at the hands of his own son, who unknowingly killed him on the road before marrying Jocasta, his own mother. For 10 points, name this Boeotian city founded by Cadmus and later ruled by Creon and Oedipus.
A king of this city received a curse on his family for abducting Chrysippus, a son of Pelops. While battling before this city, Tydeus defeated Melanippus and ate his brains. A princess from this city burnt to death after asking to see the full glory of Zeus; that mother of Dionysus, Semele, was the daughter of a man who produced a strange crop of fully-armed (*) men by sowing serpent's teeth in the soil of this city. A king of this city, Laius, died at the hands of his own son, who unknowingly killed him on the road before marrying Jocasta, his own mother. For 10 points, name this Boeotian city founded by Cadmus and later ruled by Creon and Oedipus.
A king of this city received a curse on his family for abducting Chrysippus, a son of Pelops.
Thebes