Talk:Theban kings in Greek mythology

While much of this is valuable information, I think it would be more useful as a category, so that a person searching for an individual Theban king could find the relevant information about him and be presented with a link to the other kings, rather than having to search through this article to find the information he wanted.

The third paragraph makes no sense. How could the grandson's own father still have been a minor when Cadmus abdicated? (If he did). Names appear to be reversed (see the previous paragraphs). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.227.64.93 (talk) 03:42, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Pentheus was not Polydorus's son. He was the son of Cadmus's daughter, Agave. Presumably Agave was much older than Polydorus. Given that Cadmus's wife Harmonia was a minor goddess, she might theoretically be able to have longer childbearing years than a normal mortal. john k (talk) 17:48, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Broadly speaking, it would be nice to source this material. It would also be good to present alternative versions - there seem to have been numerous versions of the Oedipus story, for instance. Euripides' Phoenician Women is incompatible with the more familiar Sophoclean version, for instance. My remembrance is that there are significant incompatibilities also with Homer's allusions to these events, and with Aeschylus's play. Greek mythology isn't like history - there is not one true version of it which can be established. There are rather numerous versions, which often contradict each other, and a wikipedia article should not try to smooth over these differences, but to present them and explain the sources of each. john k (talk) 17:48, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Family tree

Would a translation of this family tree be appropiate for the article?User:Nillerdk (talk) 14:18, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Dates

The Pages for Mythical Athenian an Argos kings have dates for their Reigns —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.144.33.65 (talk) 01:52, 22 December 2010 (UTC)