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	Thebes, Greek Mythology Link.
		Labdacus 1 opposed the Bacchanals and the god of the vine Dionysus 2, and consequently was killed by the MAENADS.
		Labdacus 1 is son of Polydorus 2 and Nycteis.
		Labdacus 1 made war against King Pandion 2 of Athens, and was killed by the MAENADS, as his predecessor Pentheus 1.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Thebes.html (2340 words)

	House of Thebes
		Labdacus was only a child when he became king, so Nycteus, son of the Sparti Chthonius and the king's grandfather, ruled Thebes as his regent.
		Labdacus ruled briefly until he was killed in battle against Pandion of Athens.
		However, Labdacus left a son Laïus (Laius or Laios), who was too young to rule, so Lycus became regent again.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/thebes.html (4346 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Labdacus to Lysithous names for the genealogy of Characters from...
		Labdacus Little is known about Labdacus except that he is the grandson of Cadmus and Harmony.
		Labdacus was only a child when he became king, so Nycteus, son of the Sparti Chthonius and the king's...
	labdacus.iqexpand.com (310 words)

	Gjertrud Schnackenberg: The Throne of Labdacus: A Poem - Bøger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Gjertrud Schnackenberg: The Throne of Labdacus: A Poem
		Given the task of setting the Sophocles text to music, the god is woven reluctantly into its world of riddles, unanswered questions, partially disclosed objects, and ambiguous second-hand reports--a world where the gods, as much as humans, are subject to the binding claims of fate and necessity.
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	Chapter 17b
		The story of Labdacus’ son Laius, father of Oedipus, probably began as a story-teller’s device to tie Thebes’ two foundation myths together.
		But the story of the House of Labdacus, filled as it is with curses and tragedy, works well as a link between the two myths, no matter how it came to be told.
		The theme of the curse that follows generation after generation and, in some cases is made worse by other curses or, ironically, by the struggle to avoid the crime that will bring the curse to fruition, appears in many Greek stories, especially in the tragic plays that survive to modern times.
	www.la.unm.edu /~katem/Myth/study_guides/chapter_17b.htm (622 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 692 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The family of the Labdacidae is par ticularly famous in ancient story, on account of the misfortunes of all that belonged to it.
		Lab dacus lost his father at an early age, and was placed under the guardianship of Nycteus, and afterwards under that of Lyciis, a brother of Nycteus.
		When Labdacus had grown up to manhood, Lycus sur rendered the government to him ; and on the death of Labdacus, which occurred soon after, Lycus again undertook the guardianship of his son Laius, the father of Oedipus.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1800.html (1066 words)

	The THeban Saga
		Labdacus, the third king of Thebes, has an obscure and confused legend.
		Labdacus is reported as the son of an obscure son of Cadmus, by the name of Polydorus, and Nysteis, the granddaughter of Chthonius, one of the Spartoi.
		Nycteus, the father of Nycteis, may have served a short term as regent for Labdacus, who came to power as a young man. When Nycteus died for grief for his daughter, Antiope, Lycus took over the duties as regent.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Agora/2749/myth/thebes.html (3516 words)

	Labdacus: Insights on Trojan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Whosoever of you knows by whom Laius son of Labdacus was slain, I bid him to declare all to me. And if he is afraid, I tell him to remove the danger of the charge from his path by denouncing himself...
		Definition of Labdacus Labdacus (344 bytes) 1: In [[Greek mythology]], '''Labdacus''' was the son of [[Polydorus]] and a King of [[T...
		Alphabetical index Labdacus In Greek mythology, Labdacus was the son of Polydorus and a King of Thebes, ancestor of Oedipus.
	trojanwomen.quaketrojan.com /labdacus (753 words)

	The Throne of Labdacus - Gjertrud Schnackenberg
		"Those hoping for a return to the jaunty elegance of the younger Schnackenberg will not find it in The Throne of Labdacus, in which her style is pared down to a flinty austerity of foreshortened rhymeless couplets, stalling and reiterating.
		The Throne of Labdacus is a single poem-sequece, a re-telling of the Oedipus-myth.
		The Throne of Labdacus is a poem that contrasts gods and mortals, where destiny is inescapable.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/poetryus/schnackj5.htm (700 words)

	Tuthmosis IV and Labdacus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It says, in part, that Tuthmosis ascended to Pharaoh on the authority of the Sphinx, and pointedly not on the authority of Amun (see on sun gods).
		Theban myth prior to Labdacus (e.g., Cadmus) is of a distinct tradition, although later mythographers linked the cycles together by means of convoluted genealogies.
		Labdacus through the capture of Thebes by the Epigoni forms a largely organic unit, however.
	www.artsci.lsu.edu /classics/wmajor/coursestuff/velikovsky/tutivlab.html (107 words)

	Boston Review: Schnackenberg
		Poetry remains an art of elders, by which I do not mean a bourgeois art of old men in dry months, but an art that—unlike the youth culture around it and the pervasive cultural Alzheimer's—still values the slow accretion of wisdom across a career, the ripening, as Rilke once wrote, in the blood.
		The publication of Gjertrud Schnackenberg's Supernatural Love: Poems 1976–1992 and The Throne of Labdacus allows us to consider her distinctive trajectory, one that is punctuated not by the stylistic newness of fad or by the superficial novelty of elliptical ploys, but by a newness that reveals itself through content, through the scrupulousness of the ideas.
		It is hard to think of another poet who would put the inaccessibility of poetry on such an extensive trial, who would assume the very gilded and mandarin style that she will proceed to dismantle.
	www.bostonreview.net /BR26.3/davis.html (1414 words)

	Schnackenberg's Collected Poems Shine; Her Oedipus Falters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Small ideas are overworked (for example, the ``small sound'' in the opening chapter, which has unintended comic overtones associated with a housefly ``stamping its foot''); large ideas arrive late and redeem too little.
		Like its predecessor, ``The Throne of Labdacus'' is unquestionably intelligent, thematically mature and beautifully envisioned.
		In any case, the plaudits will continue to fall on her in a shower of gold, for Schnackenberg is something of a darling in the East Coast literary world and still a very gifted poet.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/11/05/RV112429.DTL&type=printable (669 words)

	Sophocles, Antigone (U. of Saskatchewan) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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		Laius was son of Labdacus, king of Thebes.
		Labdacus died while Laius was still an infant and control of Thebes was assumed by the evil regent Lycus.
	duke.usask.ca /~porterj/CourseNotes/AntBckgnd.html (900 words)

	ClSt / ComL 200: Notes and Supplements for Jan. 31
		Today I want to consider two family sagas, that of the house of Tantalus (whose members include Pelops, Atreus, Thyestes, and Agamamnon) and that of the house of Labdacus (whose most famous descendant is Oedipus).
		Labdacus is a grandson of Cadmus, the legendary founder of the city, but is himself not a very well-developed figure in myth.
		Three plays written by Sophocles and dealing with the House of Labdacus have come down to us; and partly because Aeschylus was so successful at dramatizing multi-generational sagas in the form of a tragic trilogy, there is a strong temptation to think of Sophocles' Theban plays as a trilogy of the same sort.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~jfarrell/courses/spring96/myth/jan31.html (2205 words)

	Tereus 1, Greek Mythology Link.
		Tereus 1 is the cruel Thracian king who helped King Pandion 2 of Athens in his war against King Labdacus 1 of Thebes, and having received one of his daughters seduced the other.
		These events took place five or six generations before the Trojan War, at the time when Thebes and Athens waged war against each other for a matter of boundaries.
		This war was yet another setback for Thebes, then ruled by King Labdacus 1, grandfather of Oedipus.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Tereus1.html (1461 words)

	All Eyes on the Snow Globe
		Lowellian, too, is her desire to treat history as something more than a stage setting, to make it the medium of thought and feeling.
		Her new book, ''The Throne of Labdacus,'' is a long meditation on ancient Greece and the Oedipus myth; in her earlier work, collected in ''Supernatural Love,'' she is drawn to Chopin's Paris and colonial New England.
		If one feels that ''The Throne of Labdacus'' is not yet that perfect balance, it is only because even more satisfying and impressive poems will surely follow it.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/00/10/29/reviews/001029.29kirscht.html (778 words)

	House of Athens
		Pandion became involved in a war against Labdacus, the king of Thebes.
		Pandion was aided in the war by Tereus, the son of Ares and king of Thrace.
		When Tereus, the king of Thrace, aided their father in the war against Labdacus, the king of Thebes, Pandion gave Procne to Tereus in marriage.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/athens.html (3065 words)

	Eye - Fall Book Guide: Poetry - 11.09.00
		Those likely to be intimidated by cameo appearances of figures like Labdacus (Oedipus' grandfather), Polybus and Merope (his adoptive Corinthian parents) might want to read the poet's crib notes before making their way through the book's 10 surprisingly lucid, lyrical episodes.
		Those who're still squeamish might be reminded that to be intimidated by Cicero is one thing, but to run from Sophocles is like rejecting Shakespeare because you can't stand the sight of a man in tights.
		Like The Throne of Labdacus, in its own way Shin's is not just a good book, it's a memorable one -- and there's much comfort in that, whatever generational baggage you might come in with.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_11.09.00/arts/bg-poetry.html (692 words)

	PENTHEUS - LoveToKnow Article on PENTHEUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His head was carried back to Thebes in triumph by his mother.
		Labdacus and Lycurgus, who offered a similar resistance, met with a like fearful end.
		Some identify Pentheus with Dionysus himself in his character as the god of the vine, torn to pieces by the violence of winter.
	www.1911ency.org /P/PE/PENTHEUS.htm (174 words)

	the atrium \| golden threads \| greek and roman literature \| labdacus
		According to both Grimal's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Mythology and the Oxford Companion to Classical literature (the latter being indispensible when we historian types have to wrestle with literature), Cadmus begat Labdacus who begat Laius who begat Oedipus.
		Their daughters were Ino, Semele (qq.v.), Autonoe [who married Aristaeus and became mother of Actaeon] and Agave, the mother of Pentheus [see Bacchae]." Then speculation about the relationship of the Greek alphabet to the Phoenician script.)
		According to Sophocles (OT 267-68), Labdacus was the son of Polydorus and grandson of Cadmus.
	www.atrium-media.com /goldenthreads/labdacus.html (255 words)

	Angela Robey "From Oedipus to Periander"
		Labdacus: the lame, legs are not alike, not of the same size or strength
		Labdacus dies while Laius is a baby, an outsider takes over the throne, Laius is turned away from Thebes, lives with Pelops
		Laius is unbalanced in sexual relations with Pelops, inflicts violence on Pelops' son, who kills himself, Pelops places a curse on Laius condemning his line to extinction, he returns to Thebes, marries Jocasta, and takes over the throne
	www.uark.edu /campus-resources/dlevine/Oxford5.html (1042 words)

	More info about the poet: Gjertrud Schnackenberg - references bibliography
		The Throne of Labdacus, by Gjertrud Schnackenberg; Farrar,...
		The subject of Gjertrud Schnackenberg’s new book length poem Throne of Labdacus is the Oedipus...
		The Beauty of the Husband, ibid., 49; Gjertrud Schnackenberg, The Throne of Labdacus, ibid., 50; Patricia Goedicke, As Earth Begins to End, ibid., 53.
	www.poemhunter.com /gjertrud-schnackenberg/resources/poet-6828/page-1 (684 words)

	Athens
		From another wife, he was said to be the father of Oeneus, the Attic hero eponym of one of the ten tribes later instituted by Cleisthenes.
		Pandion married his daughter Procne to Tereus, king of Thracia and son of Ares, in exchange for his help in a fight against Labdacus, king of Thebes and grandfather of Oedipus.
		But Tereus later raped Procne's sister Philomela, which led to a revenge story in which Procne ended up turned by the gods into a nightingale, Philomela into a swallow, or the other way around, depending on the sources, and Tereus into a hoopoe.
	www.plato-dialogues.org /tools/loc/athens.htm (5201 words)

	The Oedipus Story
		LAIUS is left an orphaned minor by his father Labdacus
		Creon is assassinated by LYKOS the Younger, a descendant of the Lykos of Thebes who was the successor in the kingship immediately after LABDACUS.
		Laodamas ruled Thebes until it was destroyed by the EPIGONOI.
	www.csun.edu /~hcfll004/oedstory.html (931 words)

	Rainbow Gateway - Greek Mythology & Legends
		PANDION was King of Athens and LABDACUS, King of Thebes;
		And the border between their kingdoms, they just could not agree,
		To help him defeat Labdacus and kill him upon the shore.
	raingate.topcities.com /greek/greek4.html (124 words)

	Schnackenberg Roy Schnackenberg - Askart, An Artist Directory With Roy Schnackenberg And 32 000+ American Paint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $19 (paper Dry Salvages"), each collection shows Schnackenberg expanding her work beyond the.
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	Amazon.ca: The Throne of Labdacus: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This book of course is based on the Oedipus which she spent years studying, Labdacus being Oedipus's father; and she uses that firm foundation for her own incredibly beautiful, brilliant, modern/classical writing.
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	A Smaller Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology and Geography - ventas, Labdacidae, Labdacus, Labdalum, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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