Cadmus Sowing the Dragon's Teeth by Maxfield Parrish 1908
"Not far from the gate [of Thebes, Boiotia] . . . they show a place where, it is said, Kadmos (Cadmus) sowed the teeth of the Drakon (Dragon), which he slew at the fountain, from which teeth men came up out of the earth."
-Pausanias, Description of Greece 9.10.1 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.)
-Pausanias, Description of Greece 9.10.1 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.)
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| Cadmus Sowing the Dragon's Teeth. Illustration for A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, pub. 1910. |
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| Alternate lighting version. |
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