Glaucus (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Glaucus (/ˈɡlɔːkəs/; Ancient Greek: Γλαῦκος, Glaûkos means "greyish blue" or "bluish green" and "glimmering") was the name of the following figures:
- Glaucus, a sea-god[1]
- Glaucus, one of the twelve younger Panes, offspring of Pan. He came to join Dionysus in his campaign against India.[2]
- Glaucus, son of Aretus and . He joined , along with his father and brothers, against Dionysus in the Indian War.[3]
- Glaucus, son of Sisyphus and a Corinthian king.[4]
- Glaucus, husband of Laophonte and father of Leda in some variants of the myth.[5] He may be the same as Glaucus, the son of Sisyphus if hypothetical deduction of genealogy be used.
- Glaucus, son of King Minos of Crete.[6]
- Glaucus, one of the Dolionians, a people living in northwestern Asia Minor. He was killed by Jason when the Argonauts came to the country.[7]
- Glaucus, a mythical Lycian captain in the Trojan War.[8]
- Glaucus, a Trojan prince and one of the sons of King Priam by an unknown woman.[9]
- Glaucus, son of Antenor,[10] one of the Trojan elders, and Theano. He was the brother of Crino,[11] Acamas,[12][13] Agenor,[14][15] Antheus,[16] Archelochus,[17][18] Coön,[19] Demoleon,[20] Eurymachus,[21] Helicaon,[22] Iphidamas,[23] Laodamas,[24][25] Laodocus,[26] Medon,[27] Polybus[14][28] and Thersilochus.[27] Glaucus was rescued during the sack of Troy by the intervention of Odysseus and Menelaus.[29]
- Glaucus, one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Dulichium along with other 56 wooers.[30] He, with the other suitors, was shot dead by Odysseus with the aid of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.[31]
- Glaucus, a son of Aepytus.[32]
Notes[]
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 9.22.7
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 4.67 ff
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 26.250 ff
- ^ Gilbert Murray, The Eumenides of Aeschylus (Oxford University Press, 1925), p. 15.
- ^ Alcman, fr. 15 as cited in Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.146
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 136
- ^ Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.153
- ^ Homer, Iliad 2.876 & 6.199
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.12.5
- ^ Virgil, Aeneid 6.484; Apollodorus, Epitome 5.21; Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle 4.7; Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 10.27.3
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 10.27.4
- ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 3.34; Homer, Iliad 2.823, 11.60 & 12.100
- ^ Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 61, Prologue 806-807, p. 219, 11.44-46. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 219, 11.44-46. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
- ^ Homer, Iliad 11.59, 21.545 & 579
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 134
- ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 3.34; Homer, Iliad 2.823, 12.100 & 14.464
- ^ Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 61, Prologue 806-807. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
- ^ Homer, Iliad 11.248 & 256, 19.53
- ^ Homer, Iliad 20.395
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 10.27.3
- ^ Homer, Iliad 3.123
- ^ Homer, Iliad 11.221 & 261; Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 4.36.4 & 5.19.4
- ^ Homer, Iliad 15.516
- ^ Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 283, 15.193. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
- ^ Homer, Iliad 4.87
- ^ Jump up to: a b Virgil, Aeneid 6.484
- ^ Homer, Iliad 11.59
- ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 5.21
- ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 7.26–27
- ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 7.33
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 4.3.9-10
References[]
- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Dictys Cretensis, from The Trojan War. The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volume 286. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at theio.com.
- Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonauticon. Otto Kramer. Leipzig. Teubner. 1913. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Lyra Graeca Volume I, translated by Edmonds, J M. Loeb Classical Library Volume 28. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1922. Online version at theoi.com
- Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940-1942. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Tzetzes, John, Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.
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