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Noun Concept
Categories: Victory, Theban mythology, Military strategy
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Cadmean victory
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A Cadmean victory is a reference to a victory involving one's own ruin, from Cadmus, the legendary founder of Thebes in Boeotia and the mythic bringer of script to Greece. Wikipedia
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A Cadmean victory is a reference to a victory involving one's own ruin, from Cadmus, the legendary founder of Thebes in Boeotia and the mythic bringer of script to Greece. Wikipedia
Metonymy for a victory with a drawback Wikidata
A victory that damages the victors as much as the vanquished. Wiktionary
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metonymy
victory
DIFFERENT FROM
Pyrrhic victory
NAMED AFTER
Cadmus
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Cadmean victory
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Cadmean victory
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Cadmean victory

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