Cadmus was punished for having slain the dragon by being obliged to serve for a certain period of time, some say one year, others eight years. Hereupon, Cadmus slew the dragon, and, on the advice of Athena, sowed the teeth of the monster, out of which armed men grew up, who slew each other, with the exception of five, Echion, Udaeus, Chthonius, Hyperenor, and Pelor, who, according to the Theban legend, were the ancestors of the Thebans. This well was guarded by a dragon, a son of Ares, who killed the men sent by Cadmus. As he intended to sacrifice the cow here to Athena, he sent some persons to the neighbouring well of Ares to fetch water. Cadmus built Thebes, with the acropolis, Cadmea. THE SPARTOI (sown from its teeth) (Apollodorus 3.22, Pausanias 9.10.1, Apollonius Rhodius 3.1179f, Hyginus Fab 178, Ovid Met. 3.874, Nonnus Dionysiaca 4.352) OFFSPRING Ares later avenged his draconic son by transforming Kadmos and his wife into serpents.ĪRES (Apollodorus 3.22, Hyginus Fab. The goddess Athena then instructed him to sow the dragon's teeth, producing a crop of fully-grown, armed warriors called Spartoi (Sparti), five of which became the ancestral lords of Thebes. When the hero Kadmos (Cadmus) arrived seeking to found the city, he slew the monster with a heavy stone. THE DRAKON ISMENIOS (Ismenian dragon) was a giant serpent which guarded the sacred spring of Ares near Thebes. Dragon of Ismenus Cadmus, Harmonia and the Ismenian Dragon, Paestan red-figure krater C4th B.C., Musée du Louvre
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