Cadum biography wikipedia

Ricardo Cardoso Guimarães (born 4 October ), commonly known as Cadum, is a Brazilian former professional basketball player and coach.

Originally, he was sent by his royal parents to seek out and escort his sister Europa back to Tyre after she was abducted from the shores of Phoenicia by Zeus. He is also credited with the foundation of several cities in Illyria , like Bouthoe and Lychnidus. In ancient Greek literature, the end of the mythical narrative of Cadmus and Harmonia is associated with Enchelei and Illyrians , a tradition deeply rooted among the Illyrian peoples.

His parentage was sometimes modified to suit, e. Cadmus was credited by the Greek historian Herodotus with introducing the original Phoenician alphabet to the Greeks, who adapted it to form their Greek alphabet. Herodotus estimates that Cadmus lived sixteen hundred years before his time, which would be around BC. He estimated those tripods to date back to the time of Laius the great-grandson of Cadmus.

Although Greeks like Herodotus dated Cadmus's role in the founding myth of Thebes to well before the Trojan War or, in modern terms, during the Aegean Bronze Age , this chronology conflicts with most of what is now known or thought to be known about the origins and spread of both the Phoenician and Greek alphabets.

Biography Cadum was a member of the silver medal winning team at the Pan American Games as well as of the gold medal winning team at the Pan American Games.

The earliest Greek inscriptions match Phoenician letter forms from the late 9th or 8th centuries BC —in any case, the Phoenician alphabet properly speaking was not developed until around BC or after the Bronze Age collapse. The Homeric picture of the Mycenaean age betrays extremely little awareness of writing, possibly reflecting the loss during the Dark Age of the earlier Linear B script.

Linear B tablets have been found in abundance at Thebes , which might lead one to speculate that the legend of Cadmus as bringer of the alphabet could reflect earlier traditions about the origins of Linear B writing in Greece as Frederick Ahl speculated in [ 16 ]. According to Greek myth, Cadmus's descendants ruled at Thebes on and off for several generations, including the time of the Trojan War.

The etymology of Cadmus's name remains uncertain. After his sister Europa had been carried off by Zeus from the shores of Phoenicia , Cadmus was sent out by his father to find her, and enjoined not to return without her. Unsuccessful in his search—or unwilling to go against Zeus—he came to Samothrace , the island sacred to the "Great Gods" [ 26 ] or the Kabeiroi , whose mysteries would be celebrated also at Thebes.

Cadmus did not journey alone to Samothrace; he appeared with his mother Telephassa [ 27 ] in the company of his nephew or brother Thasus , son of Cilix , who gave his name to the island of Thasos nearby. An identically composed trio had other names at Samothrace, according to Diodorus Siculus : [ 28 ] the Pleiad Electra and her two sons, Dardanos and Eetion or Iasion.