Question

Read the following passage and answer the question.

My children, latest generation born from Cadmus, why are you sitting here with wreathed sticks in supplication to me, while the city fills with incense, chants and cries of pain?

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so I have come in person—I, Oedipus,

whose fame all men acknowledge.

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I shall assist you willingly in every way.

I would be a hard-hearted man indeed,

if I did not pity suppliants like these.

Who is Cadmus?

Another name for Teiresias
Oedipus’s father
Jocasta’s husband
legendary founder of Thebes

Answer 1

D) legendary founder of Thebes

Step-by-step explanation:

Legend has it that Cadmus, a supposed Phoenician founder of Boeotian Thebes, provided the inspiration for Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Along with Perseus and Bellerophon (before the days of Heracles), he was the greatest Greek hero before Heracles' time. A prince of Phoenicia, according to popular belief, and the son of King Agenor of Phoenicia.