Book 3 summary. From Cadmus (founder of the city of Thebes), the book progresses to his gandson Actaeon, daughter Semele (turned into a stag), Teiresias (a seer of Thebes), Narcissus and Echo, the turning of sailors into dolphins, and Pentheus (a king of Thebes, who rejects the worship of Bacchus, god of wine and ecstasy).
Book III
