Glaucus

Family: Trojan · Role: father of Bellerophon · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.9

🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Glaucus) · The Aeneid (as Glaucus) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Glaucus)

As a child, Glaucus fell into a jar of honey while chasing a mouse and drowned. Polyidus found his body through divination, restored him to life with a herb, and taught him divination under compulsion; when Glaucus spat into Polyidus’s mouth, “Glaucus did so and forgot the art of divination.”

The accounts name Sisyphus, Minos, Hippolochus, and Antenor as Glaucus’s father, while Eurymede is named as the mother of his son Bellerophon. In the war, Diomedes recalled the friendship between their fathers and exchanged arms with Glaucus. Ajax son of Telamon later killed Glaucus in a fight over a corpse, while Odysseus and Menelaus rescued him through their armed intervention. Glaucus was also listed among the suitors of Penelope.

Relationship record

Life events

• Glaucus fell into a jar of honey and drowned.(Apollodorus, Library 3.3)
  • “But Glaucus, while he was yet a child, in chasing a mouse fell into a jar of honey and was drowned.”
• Polyidus found Glaucus's body through divination.(Apollodorus, Library 3.3)
  • With: Polyidus
  • “So when the diviners were assembled, Polyidus, son of Coeranus, compared the color of the cow to the fruit of the bramble, and being compelled to seek for the child he found him by means of a sort of divination.”
• Polyidus restored Glaucus to life with a herb.(Apollodorus, Library 3.3)
  • With: Polyidus
  • “Surprised at this sight, Polyidus applied the same herb to the body of Glaucus and raised him from the dead.”
• Polyidus taught Glaucus divination under compulsion.(Apollodorus, Library 3.3)
  • With: Polyidus
  • “Polyidus taught him on compulsion, and when he was sailing away he bade Glaucus spit into his mouth.”
• Glaucus forgot the art of divination after spitting into Polyidus's mouth.(Apollodorus, Library 3.3)
  • “Glaucus did so and forgot the art of divination.”
• Diomedes and Glaucus exchanged arms after recalling their fathers’ friendship.(Apollodorus, Epitome 4)
  • With: Diomedes
  • “And encountering Glaucus, he recalled the friendship of their fathers and exchanged arms.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.9

• parent: Sisyphus “They had a son Glaucus”
• child: Bellerophon “Glaucus, who had by Eurymede a son Bellerophon”

Apollodorus, Library 3.1

• parent: Minos “He begat sons, to wit, Catreus, Deucalion, Glaucus, and Androgeus: and daughters, to wit, Acalle, Xenodice, Ariadne, Phaedra;”

Apollodorus, Library 3.3

• mentor: Polyidus “Polyidus taught him on compulsion”
• with Polyidus (Polyidus resurrected Glaucus.) “Surprised at this sight, Polyidus applied the same herb to the body of Glaucus and raised him from the dead.”

Apollodorus, Epitome 3

• parent: Hippolochus “of the Lycians, Sarpedon, son of Zeus, and Glaucus, son of Hippolochus.”
• child: Hippolochus “Glaucus, son of Hippolochus”

Apollodorus, Epitome 4

• friends with Diomedes “and encountering Glaucus, he recalled the friendship of their fathers and exchanged arms.”
• with Diomedes (They exchanged arms after recalling their fathers' friendship.) “and encountering Glaucus, he recalled the friendship of their fathers and exchanged arms.”

Apollodorus, Epitome 5

• with Ajax son of Telamon (interaction) “A fight taking place for the corpse, Ajax killed Glaucus,”
• parent: Antenor “when Glaucus, son of Antenor, fled to his house,”
• with Odysseus (interaction) “Ulysses and Menelaus recognized and rescued him by their armed intervention.”
• with Menelaus (interaction) “Ulysses and Menelaus recognized and rescued him by their armed intervention.”

Apollodorus, Epitome 7

• courtship with Penelope “Argius, Glaucus, Calydoneus”
• admired: Penelope “From Dulichium came fifty-seven: Amphinomus, Thoas, Demoptolemus, Amphimachus, Euryalus, Paralus, Evenorides, Clytius, Agenor, Eurypylus, Pylaemenes, Acamas, Thersilochus, Hagius, Clymenus, Philodemus, Meneptolemus, Damastor, Bias, Telmius, Polyidus, Astylochus, Schedius, Antigonus, Marpsius, Iphidamas, Argius, Glaucus, Calydoneus, Echion, Lamas, Andraemon, Agerochus, Medon, Agrius, Promus, Ctesius, Acarnan, Cycnus, Pseras, Hellanicus, Periphron, Megasthenes, Thrasymedes, Ormenius, Diopithes, Mecisteus, Antimachus, Ptolemaeus, Lestorides, Nicomachus, Polypoetes, and Ceraus.”

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