Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Udaeus.
The gallery
Cadmus and the Spartoi
Virgil Solis, 1563
Solis' Metamorphoses plate: Cadmus watches the Spartoi rise and slaughter one another — Udaeus among the five earth-born survivors who seed Thebes' nobility.
Cadmus Sows the Dragon's Teeth Which Turn into Armed Men
Hendrik Goltzius, 1615
Goltzius' LACMA engraving for Ovid III: armed men spring from the sown teeth — the prodigy that leaves Udaeus and four comrades as Thebes' autochthonous houses.
Cadmus and the Spartoi (Wallenstein Palace)
Unknown (Wallenstein Palace sculptors), c. 1620s
Prague's Wallenstein mythological corridor stages Cadmus with the Spartoi — the sown warriors among whom Udaeus stands as ancestor of the Theban line of Tiresias.
In play
Bibliotheca
Apollodorus
Apollodorus names Udaeus among the five surviving Spartoi — the sown man whose descendants include the seer Tiresias.
Dragon's teeth (mythology)
Cadmus sows Ares' dragon's teeth and raises the Spartoi — Udaeus one of the five who live when the rest kill each other.
Udaeus (mythology)
One of the five original Spartoi of Thebes — earth-born warrior and ancestor in the Theban stemma.