: A mythological greek hunter and heron of city Thebes. Died being torn apart by his own hunting dogs after having been transformed into a stag by Artemis, whom he had seen bathing naked. His story is generally remembered now for the "hunter becoming the hunted" as an ironic punishment; in antiquity it might also served as an alegory to ritual animal sacrife to regain a deities favour.
(note: Plural): In greek mythology, the "sown" warriors that grew from the teeth of dragons planted in the earth. In the tale of Cadmus, he was able to make those he had created on the advice of Athena to fight each other by tossing a stone into their ranks. The remaining spartoi
were then to supposed to have founded the warrior elite of the city Thebes. (Note: sowing dragons teeth is also one of the labours of Jason during his stay in Clochis)
: In greek mythology, a man-like figure out of bronze that guarded the island of Crete. When the Argo tried to pass the island, he hurlded boulders at it to keep the ship away. In order for the Argo to pass, he had to be enchanted and then killed by Medea.