Editing Harmonia (section)

==Family==
Harmonia's parentage varies between accounts. She has most often been named as a daughter of the gods [[Ares]] and [[Aphrodite]].<ref name=":0">[[Scholia]] on [[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' B, 494, p. 80, 43 ed. Bekk. as cited in [[Hellanicus of Lesbos|Hellanicus]]' ''Boeotica''</ref><ref>[[Aeschylus]], ''Seven Against Thebes'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0014:card=128&highlight=harmonia 128]</ref><ref name=":1">[[Apollodorus of Athens|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022:text=Library:book=3:chapter=4&highlight=harmonia 3.4]</ref><ref>[[Euripides]], ''[[Bacchae (Thiyam play)|Bacchae]]'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0092:card=1330&highlight=harmonia 1355]</ref> This would make her the sister of other mythological figures such as [[Aeneas]], [[Phobos (mythology)|Phobos]], and [[Eros]]. In other accounts, Harmonia was born in [[Samothrace]] to [[Zeus]] and the [[Pleiades (Greek mythology)|Pleiad]] [[Electra (Pleiad)|Electra]].<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Harmonia|volume=12|page=955}}</ref> In this telling, Harmonia would have been the sister of [[Dardanus (son of Zeus)|Dardanus]] and [[Iasion]], who, under the instruction of Zeus, were the founders of [[Greco-Roman mysteries|mystic rites]] on Samothrace.<ref name=":2">Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#48.2 5.48.2]</ref>

Almost always, Harmonia is married to [[Cadmus]], the legendary hero and founder of [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hornblower |first=Simon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bVWcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA257#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=The Oxford Classical Dictionary |last2=Spawforth |first2=Antony |last3=Eidinow |first3=Esther |date=2012-03-29 |publisher=OUP Oxford |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-19-954556-8 |pages=257 |language=en}}</ref> With Cadmus, she was the mother of [[Ino (Greek mythology)|Ino]], [[Polydorus (son of Cadmus)|Polydorus]], [[Autonoë]], [[Agave (Theban princess)|Agave]], [[Semele]], and [[Illyrius]].<ref>The Dictionary of Classical Mythology by Pierre Grimal and A. R. Maxwell-Hyslop, {{ISBN|0-631-20102-5}}, 1996, page 230: "Illyrius (Ιλλυριός) The youngest son of Cadmus and Harmonia. He was born during their expedition against the Illyrians"</ref><ref>The Dictionary of Classical Mythology by Pierre Grimal and A. R. Maxwell-Hyslop, {{ISBN|0-631-20102-5}}, 1996, page 83: "... Cadmus then ruled over the Illyrians and he had another son, named Illyrius. But later Cadmus and Harmonia were turned into serpents and ..."</ref> Through her daughter Semele, Harmonia is the grandmother of [[Dionysus]].<ref>Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#52 p.243]</ref>