Glauce
Family: Danaid · Role: princess · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.9
🌐 Also appears in: Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Glauce)
Life events
- Medea poisons Glauce, kills Mermerus and Pheres, and flees Corinth by dragon-drawn chariot.(Apollodorus, Library 1.9 · 📍 Corinth)
- With: Medea Jason Creon (king of Corinth) Mermerus Pheres
- “But she invoked the gods by whom Jason had sworn, and after often upbraiding him with his ingratitude she sent the bride a robe steeped in poison, which when Glauce had put on, she was consumed with fierce fire along with her father, who went to her rescue. But Mermerus and Pheres, the children whom Medea had by Jason, she killed, and having got from the Sun a car drawn by winged dragons she fled on it to Athens.”
Apollodorus, Library 1.9
- married with Jason “Creon, king of Corinth, betrothed his daughter Glauce to Jason, who married her and divorced Medea.”
- parent: Creon (king of Corinth) “Creon, king of Corinth, betrothed his daughter Glauce to Jason”
- engaged with Jason “betrothed his daughter Glauce to Jason”
Apollodorus, Library 2.1
- married with Alces “Alces got Glauce”
Apollodorus, Library 3.12
- child: Telamon “Glauce, daughter of Cychreus”
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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.