Life of Justinian by Theophilus

Abstract

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Myth of Cadmus as the Proof of Antiquity of Slavic Civilization

“…According to one version of the myth of Cadmus, one family branch of Cadmus' sons Illyrius, Dardan and Scordisc disappeared with the death of his descendent Oedipus 11 while according to another version Cadmus' descendants and people became some sort of snakes or dragons with a tail attached to human torso 12 , which was a metaphor for Noah's oldest son Japhet («Iatus, expandus» 13 ), whose descendants «spread all over the world», as it was written in «Genesis» in Old Testament 14 . In other words, Cadmus' 7 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5. 88.…”

“…6 Diodor of Sicily, 5.58.2: King Agenor's son Cadmus established a Phoenician colony on the island Rhodos whose ancestors and inhabitants were from the family of Poseidon. 7 Homer, Iliad, 1. 35-39 8 «Red copper» (Homer, Iliad, 9.365) or «grey mean «bronze» or «copper» 9 .…”

“…472. 2 7 , It is also proved by the toponymes in Greece related to the metal made in Th eba and its surrounding cities which was used for the production of the alloys for printing letters 8 . During the 8th century BC these symbols were accepted by Hellenic migrants to Greece 9 and used until the 5th century BC, when the Athenian tyrant Pisistrat ordered a linguistic revision of the edition of Homer's Illiad 10 .…”

“…Th e archeological discovery of the metal used for the production of printing alloys in Th eba and its surroundings 11 explains the paintings on antique vases representing Cadmus who kills a dragon with a stone and then builds Th eba in which literacy and metallurgy developed and both these actions explain the meaning of integral ethnonyme of the Slavs as "literthat he was the fi rst man who wrote history in the form of prose. 7 Vahanyan Vahan, Vahanyan Grigori. was considered a «red» man who, like the sun, came from the mountain Ararat in the East, or from Sarmatia, or Dakia Gettica 1 , to the Black sea-Balkan region and eastern Mediterranean and this is the reason why the peoples in eastern Mediterranean called him «kedem» («East») 2 or «ab orientem» («from the East») 3 .…”

“…Петковић. 7 On why the Romans adopted from the Greeks Solon's Tablets and their laws, institutions and customs see Toynbee Arnold J. , Hannibal 9 . Th erefore the myth of Cadmus from the East who taught the Greeks various kinds of knowledge is related to the Scythians philosophers and thinkers 10 and ascetics 11 who arrived from their «barbarian» eastern states and gave legislation to the Athenians and Romans 12 , and invented an anchor and taught the Greeks the skill of navigation and other kinds of knowledge in the fi eld of science and arts 13 , for which the antique Greeks used to express their gratitude to them 14 .…”