In Greek Mythology, Cadmus was the founder and first king of Thebes. He was the song of King Agenor and Queen Telephassa of the Phoenician, city of Tyre, and brother of Phoenix and Europa. It was believed he was the person who introduced the Phoenician alphabet to the Greeks. “The Phoenicians who came with Cadmus… introduced into Greece, after their settlement in the country, a number of accomplishments, of which the most important was writing, an art till then, I think, unknown to the Greeks.” (Herodotus 5.58) The classical Greek alphabet were borrowed from the Phoenician alphabet; alpha, beta, gamma, delta is Grecized. However, Cadmus preceded by several generations the Trojan War, on this the Greek tradition is unanimous. Tradition has it
