One of his children became the goddess Leukothea, after she leapt into the sea while fleeing her crazed husband Athamas.
In exile, he became king of the Enchilees on the Rhizon River. One of his children became the goddess Leukothea, after she leapt into the sea while fleeing her crazed husband Athamas. That same daughter nursed one of his grandsons after another daughter was immolated. His third daughter decapitated her own son in a maenadic frenzy. After his reign in Illyria, he and his wife Harmonia were changed into snakes to watch over their own tombs. Obeying the Pythia, he followed a cow to a spot where he founded a city, which he populated with the help of five Spartoi, born of the sown teeth of a serpent he had killed. Father of Ino, Semele, and Agave, this is, FTP, what founder of Thebes, who failed to find his sister Europa?
In exile, he became king of the Enchilees on the Rhizon River.
Cadmus