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Minos refused to let Polyidus leave Crete until he taught Glaucus the art of divination. 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.
Following this example, Polyidus used the same herb to resurrect Glaucus. Minos refused to let Polyidus leave Crete until he taught Glaucus the art of divination. Polyidus did so, but then, at the last moment before leaving, he asked Glaucus to spit in his mouth. Glaucus did so and forgot everything he had been taught.
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 Minos of Crete. [4] Glaucus, one of the twelve younger Panes, offspring of Pan. He came to join Dionysus in his campaign against India. [5] Glaucus, son of Aretus and Laobie.
Pasiphaë was given in marriage to King Minos of Crete. With Minos, she was the mother of Acacallis, Ariadne, Androgeus, Glaucus, Deucalion, [17] Phaedra, Xenodice, and Catreus. After having sex with the Cretan Bull, she gave birth to the "star-like" Asterion, who became known as the Minotaur.
Glaucus (son of Minos) Idomeneus son of Deucalion. He led the Cretan armies to the Trojan War in the side of Achaeans. Minos son of Asterion, king of Crete and judge in the Greek underworld. Rhadamanthus son of Asterion, king of Crete and judge in the Greek underworld. Zeus father of the gods of Olympus, god of the sky, thunder and lightning.
Phaedra was the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë of Crete, and thus sister to Acacallis, Ariadne, Androgeus, Deucalion, Xenodice, Glaucus and Catreus and half-sister to the Minotaur. She was the wife of Theseus and the mother of Demophon of Athens and Acamas.
In Greek mythology, Glaucus (/ ˈ ɡ l ɔː k ə s /; Ancient Greek: Γλαῦκος, romanized: Glaûkos, lit. 'glimmering') was a Greek prophetic sea-god, born mortal and turned immortal upon eating a magical herb.
Crete, possible mother of Pasiphaë by Helios. [4] [5] Crete, daughter of Asterius, who married Minos, in one version. In this regard, she was considered the mother of Acacallis, Ariadne, Androgeus, Deucalion, Phaedra, Glaucus, Catreus and Xenodice. [6] Crete, daughter of Deucalion (son of Minos), sister of Idomeneus and half-sister of Molus. [7]