Glauce

Role: woman · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 3

In Book 2, Chapter 3, Glauce throws herself into a well, seeking an antidote to Medea’s poison. Mermerus and Pheres, Medea’s sons, are stoned by the Corinthians after carrying her gifts to Glauce.

Relationship record

Life events

• Glauce throws herself into the well, seeking an antidote to Medea’s poison.(Book 2 · Chapter 3 · 📍 well of Glauce)
  • With: Medea
  • “for she threw herself into it, thinking the water would be an antidote against the poison of Medea.”
• Mermerus and Pheres are stoned by the Corinthians after carrying Medea’s gifts to Glauce.(Book 2 · Chapter 3)
  • With: Mermerus Pheres Medea
  • “whose names were Mermerus and Pheres, who are said to have been stoned by the Corinthians because of the gifts which they took Glauce.”

Book 2 · Chapter 3

• with Medea (Glauce was affected by Medea's poison.) “for she threw herself into it, thinking the water would be an antidote against the poison of Medea”
• with Mermerus (Mermerus took gifts to Glauce.) “the sons of Medea, whose names were Mermerus and Pheres, who are said to have been stoned by the Corinthians because of the gifts which they took Glauce”
• with Pheres (Pheres took gifts to Glauce.) “the sons of Medea, whose names were Mermerus and Pheres, who are said to have been stoned by the Corinthians because of the gifts which they took Glauce”
• with Medea (Medea's poison afflicted Glauce.) “for she threw herself into it, thinking the water would be an antidote against the poison of Medea.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.