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

• mother: Harmonia

Domains

• kingship
• dynastic succession

Powers

• Transmits the Cadmean kingship of Thebes to the Labdacid line

Epithets

• Πολύδωρος Κάδμου παῖς — Polydorus son of CadmusApollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.4.2, 3.5.5 (primary)

Relations

• sibling: AutonoeSister (one-way edge to the pre-existing figure).Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.4.2 (primary)
• sibling: InoSister.Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.4.2 (primary)
• sibling: SemeleSister; mother of Dionysus.Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.4.2 (primary)
• sibling: AgaveSister; mother of Pentheus, whom Polydorus succeeded.Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.4.2 (primary)
• spouse: Nycteis (daughter of Nycteus the regent) · GreekApollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.5.5; Pausanias 9.5.3 (primary)
• father of: Labdacus (king of Thebes, eponym of the Labdacid line) · GreekSon; founder of the Labdacid dynasty (Laius, Oedipus); no corpus entry.Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.5.5; Pausanias 9.5.4-5 (primary)

Sources

• existence and parentage (only son of Cadmus and Harmonia): Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.4.2; Hesiod, Theogony 978; Diodorus Siculus 19.53.5 (primary)
• kingship of Thebes, marriage to Nycteis, fatherhood of Labdacus: Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.5.5; Pausanias 9.5.3-5; Herodotus 5.59 (the Labdacid line) (primary)