![]() The god commanded him to cease worrying over his sister and to turn his thoughts into another channel, bidding him to follow a heifer which he would find outside the shrine and to establish a city on the spot where she would first lie down to rest. After the death of Telephassa, Kadmos felt free to continue his search for Europe, and going to Delphoi he inquired of the oracle concerning her. On her disappearance Agenor sent his wife and sons throughout the neighbouring lands in quest of her and ordered them not to return without her, but all failed in their errand, and, fearful of Agenor's anger, they resolved never to go back home, Phoinix settling in a district of Phoinikia, Kilix in Kilikia, and Thasos, Kadmos, and their mother Telephassa in Thrace. ![]() ![]() ![]() Agenor, a great-grandson of Io, established himself in Phoinikia, where he had a daughter named Europe, whom Zeus one day carried away to Crete by force. The Greeks explained this coincidence by suggesting that after Kadmos killed Ares' dragon, the dragon's teeth were divided, with half going to Kadmos and half to Aeetes, who later forced Jason to sow them. The motif of the Spartoi appears in two Greek myths, that of Jason and that of Kadmos. ![]()
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