Ino (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Ino was a Theban princess who later became a queen of Boeotia. After her death and transfiguration, she was worshiped as a goddess under her epithet Leucothea, the "white goddess."
Mosaic fragment: Ino (Δωτω, Dotô), discovered 1833 in a Roman villa in Saint-Rustice, 4th or 5th century, Saint-Raymon Museum
Athamas tue le fils d'Ino by Gaetano Gandolfi (1801)
Atamante preso dalle Furie, by Arcangelo Migliarini (1801) Accademia di San Luca, Roma, IT
Athamas und Ino by Radierung (17th century)
Cadmus
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In Greek mythology, Cadmus was the legendary founder of Boeotian Thebes. He was, alongside Perseus and Bellerophon, the greatest hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. Commonly state
Ino (mythology)
…romanized: thalassomédousa), which, if not hyperbole, would make her a goddess parallel to Amphitrite. Ino was the second daughter of the King Cadmus and Queen Harmonia of Thebes and one of the three sisters of Semele, the mortal woman of the house of Cadmus who gave birth to Dionysus. Her only brother…
4th century BC painting of Cadmus slaying the dragon, from the Louvre in Paris, France
Sowing the Dragon's teeth; workshop of Rubens
Hendrick Goltzius, Cadmus fighting the Dragon
Cadmus Asks the Delphic Oracle Where He Can Find his Sister, Europa, Hendrick Goltzius