Glaucos

Family: Chian · Role: welded-iron worker · First appears: Book 1 · §19–27

Life events

Glaucos accepted a deposit of money from a Milesian and later returned it to the Milesians.(Book 6 · §84–90 · 📍 Sparta)
- “Glaucos then, having sent for the Milesians, gave back to them the money”
Glaucos's descendants and his hearth were utterly destroyed and rooted up out of Sparta.(Book 6 · §84–90 · 📍 Sparta)
- “At the present time there is no descendant of Glaucos existing, nor any hearth which is esteemed to be that of Glaucos, but he has been utterly destroyed and rooted up out of Sparta.”

with Alyattes (Glaucos made the iron stand for Alyattes's votive offering.) “This king, when he recovered from his sickness, dedicated a votive offering at Delphi (being the second of his house who had so done), namely a great mixing-bowl of silver with a stand for it of iron welded together, which last is a sight worth seeing above all the offerings at Delphi and the work of Glaucos the Chian, who of all men first found out the art of welding iron.”

parent: Epikydes (Epikydes is Glaucos's father.) “We Spartans report that there was in Lacedemon about two generations before my time on Glaucos the son of Epikydes.”

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