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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Ariadne was the daughter of Minos, the King of Crete [9] and son of Zeus, and of Pasiphaë, Minos' queen and daughter of Helios. [10] Others denominated her mother Crete, daughter of Asterius, the husband and King of Europa. Ariadne was the sister of Acacallis, Androgeus, Deucalion, Phaedra, Glaucus, Xenodice, and Catreus. [11]
Idomeneus (Ιδομενέας), King of Crete and Achaean commander. Leads a charge against the Trojans in Book 13. Menelaus (Μενέλαος), King of Sparta and the abandoned husband of Helen. He is the younger brother of Agamemnon. Nestor (Νέστωρ), of Gerênia and the son of Neleus.
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.
Glaucus, son of Aepytus of Messenia; Glaucus (son of Sisyphus), of Potniae; Glaucus (son of Minos), of Crete; Glaucus (son of Hippolochus), of Lycia, grandson of the hero Bellerophon; Glaucus of Carystus, an ancient Greek athlete; Glaucus of Chios (c. 7th century BCE), Greek sculptor in metal; Apollonius Glaucus, 2nd-century Roman physician