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Polyidus did so, but then, at the last second before leaving, he asked Glaucus to spit in his mouth. Glaucus did so and forgot everything he had been taught. The story of Polyidus and Glaucus was the subject of a lost play attributed to Euripides. Glaucus later led an army that attacked Italy, introducing to them the military girdle and shield ...
By his wife, Pasiphaë (or some say Crete), and daughter of the Sun , and mother of the Minotaur, he fathered Ariadne, Androgeus, Deucalion, Phaedra, Glaucus, Catreus, Acacallis, and Xenodice. By a nymph , Pareia, he had four sons, Eurymedon, Nephalion , Chryses, and Philolaus, whom Heracles killed in revenge for the murder of the latter's two ...
A statue of Glaucus was installed in 1911 in the middle of the Fontana delle Naiadi, Mario Rutelli's fountain of four naked bronze nymphs, located in the Piazza Repubblica, Rome. Ezra Pound wrote a poem titled "An Idyl for Glaucus" from the perspective of Glaucus's human lover, abandoned after Glaucus had tasted the herb and leapt into the sea ...
In Greek mythology, Glaucus (/ ˈ ɡ l ɔː k ə s /; Ancient Greek: Γλαῦκος, Glaûkos means "greyish blue" or "bluish green" and "glimmering") was the name of the following figures: Glaucus, a sea-god [1] Glaucus, son of Sisyphus and a Corinthian king. [2] Glaucus, a mythical Lycian captain in the Trojan War. [3] Glaucus, son of King ...
One day, Glaucus, son of King Minos and Queen Pasiphaë of Crete, was playing with a mouse and suddenly disappeared. The Kuretes told Minos: "A marvelous creature has been born amongst you: whoever finds the true likeness for this creature will also find the child." They interpreted this to refer to a newborn calf in Minos' herd.
Glaucus was the brother of Almus, Thersander and Ornytion At first, Sisyphus had tried to arrange a marriage for Glaucus with the shape-shifting Mestra , a daughter of Erysichthon , but despite the payment of valuable bride-gifts, she eluded the marriage and was taken to an island by Poseidon .
The story goes that Phaedra, who was the mother of two sons, Acamas and Demophon, falls in love with her stepson Hippolytus, Theseus's son by another woman (born to either Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, or Antiope, her sister) and sets out to entice him. It is unclear in this version exactly why Hippolytus rejects Phaedra, if not simply ...
In the United States the biblical archaeology movement, under the influence of Albright, counterattacked, arguing that the broad outline within the framing narratives was also true, so that while scholars could not realistically expect to prove or disprove individual episodes from the life of Abraham and the other patriarchs, these were real ...