Polydorus of Thebes

Mortal Theban prince and king, the only son of Cadmus and Harmonia (greek_harmonia, whose notes name 'Polydorus of Thebes'). Brother of Autonoe, Ino, Semele and Agave. Husband of Nycteis and father of Labdacus, founder of the Labdacid line (Laius, Oedipus). Authored as mortal — the human Theban royal line — matching the existing sister greek_autonoe. Id is greek_polydorus_thebes to disambiguate from the existing greek_polydorus_troy (Polydorus son of Priam, an unrelated figure).

Parentage

• Harmonia

Domains

• kingship
• dynastic succession

Powers

• Transmits the Cadmean kingship of Thebes to the Labdacid line

Epithets

• Πολύδωρος Κάδμου παῖς

Relations

• sibling: Autonoe
• sibling: Ino
• sibling: Semele
• sibling: Agave

Sources

• Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.4.2; Hesiod, Theogony 978; Diodorus Siculus 19.53.5
• Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.5.5; Pausanias 9.5.3-5; Herodotus 5.59 (the Labdacid line)