Pausanias' Description of Greece

Glaucus (son of Sisyphus)

Also known as: Glaucus · Role: person · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 4

Life events

  • Glaucus was killed by horses during Acastus’s funeral games.(Book 6 · Chapter 20 · 📍 the Isthmus)
    • With: Acastus
    • “Glaucus the son of Sisyphus, who they say was killed by horses, when Acastus was holding the funeral games to his father”

Book 2 · Chapter 4

  • parent: Sisyphus “And Sisyphus had as sons not only Glaucus the father of Bellerophon, but also Ornytion, and Thersander, and Almus.”
  • siblings with Ornytion “And Sisyphus had as sons not only Glaucus the father of Bellerophon, but also Ornytion, and Thersander, and Almus.”
  • siblings with Thersander (son of Sisyphus) “And Sisyphus had as sons not only Glaucus the father of Bellerophon, but also Ornytion, and Thersander, and Almus.”
  • siblings with Almus “And Sisyphus had as sons not only Glaucus the father of Bellerophon, but also Ornytion, and Thersander, and Almus.”
  • child: Bellerophon “Glaucus the father of Bellerophon”

Book 6 · Chapter 20

  • parent: Sisyphus (Sisyphus is Glaucus's father.) “There is also at the Isthmus a Taraxippus, Glaucus the son of Sisyphus”
  • with Acastus (Acastus held funeral games at which Glaucus was killed) “Glaucus the son of Sisyphus, who they say was killed by horses, when Acastus was holding the funeral games to his father”

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