Glaucus

Family: Divine · Role: interpreter of Nereus · First appears: Book I 10

Life events

Glaucus foretells the separate destinies of Heracles, Polyphemus, and Hylas.(Book I 10)
- With: Heracles Polyphemus Hylas
- “At Argos it is his fate to labour for insolent Eurystheus and to accomplish full twelve toils and dwell with the immortals, if so be that he bring to fulfilment a few more yet; wherefore let there be no vain regret for him. Likewise it is destined for Polyphemus to found a glorious city at the mouth of Cius among the Mysians and to fill up the measure of his fate in the vast land of the Chalybes. But a goddess-nymph through love has made Hylas her husband, on whose account those two wandered and were left behind.”

with Heracles (interaction) “At Argos it is his fate to labour for insolent Eurystheus and to accomplish full twelve toils and dwell with the immortals”
with Polyphemus (interaction) “Likewise it is destined for Polyphemus to found a glorious city at the mouth of Cius among the Mysians and to fill up the measure of his fate in the vast land of the Chalybes.”
with Hylas (Glaucus foretells Hylas’s fate.) “But a goddess-nymph through love has made Hylas her husband, on whose account those two wandered and were left behind.”
with Nereus (Glaucus is described as Nereus’s interpreter.) “the wise interpreter of divine Nereus”

Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.