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GLAUCUS (" See also:bright ") , the name of several figures in See also:Greek See also:mythology, the most important of which are the following: r. GLAUCUS, surnamed Pontius, a See also:sea divinity. Originally a fisherman and See also:diver of Anthedon in See also:Boeotia, having eaten of a certain magical See also:herb sown by Cronus, he leapt into the sea, where he was changed into a See also:god, and endowed with the See also:gift of unerring prophecy. According to others he sprang into the sea for love of the sea-god See also:Melicertes, with whom he was often identified (See also:Athenaeus vii. 296). He was worshipped not only at Anthedon, but on the coasts of See also:Greece, See also:Sicily and See also:Spain, where fishermen and sailors at certain seasons watched for his arrival during the See also:night in See also:order to consult him (See also:Pausanias ix. 22). In See also:art he is depicted as a vigorous old See also:man with See also:long See also:hair and See also:beard, his See also:body terminating in a scaly tail, his See also:breast covered with shells and sea-See also:weed. He was said to have been the builder and See also:pilot of the Argo, and to have been changed into a god after the fight between the See also:Argonauts and Tyrrhenians. He assisted the expedition in various ways (Athenaeus, loc. cit.; see also See also:Ovid, Metam. xiii. 904). Glaucus was the subject of a satyric See also:drama by See also:Aeschylus.

He was famous for his amours, especially those with Scylla and See also:

Circe. See the exhaustive monograph by R. Gaedechens, Glaukos der Meergott (186o), and See also:article by the same in See also:Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie; and for Glaucus and Scylla, E. See also:Vinet in Annali del-l' Instituto di Correspondenza archeologica, xv. (1843). 2. GLAUCUS, usually surnamed Potnieus, from Potniae near See also:Thebes, son of See also:Sisyphus by See also:Merope and See also:father of See also:Bellerophon. According to the See also:legend he was torn to pieces by his own mares (See also:Virgil, Georgics, iii. 267; See also:Hyginus, Fab. 250, 273). On the See also:isthmus of See also:Corinth, and also at See also:Olympia and Nemea, he was worshipped as Taraxippus (" terrifier of horses "), his See also:ghost being said to appear and frighten the horses at the See also:games (Pausanias Vi. 20).

He is closely akin to Glaucus Pontius, the frantic horses of the one probably representing the stormy waves, the other the sea in its calmer See also:

mood. He also was the subject of a lost drama of Aeschylus. 3. GLAUCUS, the son of See also:Minos and Pasiphae. When a See also:child, while playing at See also:ball or pursuing a See also:mouse, he See also:fell into a See also:jar of See also:honey and was smothered. His father, after a vain See also:search for him, consulted the See also:oracle, and was referred to the See also:person who should suggest the aptest comparison for one of the cows of Minos which had the See also:power of assuming three different See also:colours. Polyidus of See also:Argos, who had likened it to a mulberry (or bramble), which changes from See also:white to red and then to See also:black, soon after-wards discovered the child; but on his confessing his inability to restore him to See also:life, he was shut up in a vault with the See also:corpse. Here he killed a See also:serpent which was revived by a See also:companion, which laid a certain herb upon it. With the same herb Polyidus brought the dead Glaucus back to life. According to others, he owed his recovery to See also:Aesculapius. The See also:story was the subject of plays by the three See also:great Greek tragedians, and was often represented in mimic dances. See Hyginus, Fab.

136; See also:

Apollodorus iii. 3. to; C. Hock, Kreta, iii. 1829; C. See also:Eckermann, See also:Melampus, 184o. 4. GLAUCUS, son of Hippolochus, and See also:grandson of Bellerophon, mythical progenitor of the See also:kings of See also:Ionia. He was a Lycian See also:prince who, along with his See also:cousin See also:Sarpedon, assisted See also:Priam in the Trojan See also:War. When he found himself opposed to See also:Diomedes, with whom he was connected by ties of hospitality, they ceased fighting and exchanged See also:armour. Since the equipment of Glaucus was See also:golden and that of Diomedes brazen, the expression " golden for brazen " (Iliad, vi. 236) came to be used proverbially for a See also:bad See also:exchange. Glaucus was afterwards slain by See also:Ajax.

All the above are exhaustively treated by R. Gaedechens in See also:

Ersch and See also:Gruber's Allgemeine Encyclopadie.

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