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Glaucus later led an army that attacked Italy, introducing to them the military girdle and shield. This was the source of his Italian name, Labicus, meaning "girdled". Glaucus had a daughter called Deiphobe, who was a priestess of Phoebus Apollo and Diana Trivia who features in The Aeneid in Book 6.
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 ...
'Fake' foods are everywhere, from maple syrup that isn't really maple syrup to fish in disguise. Here are 10 foods to thoroughly inspect the next time you're at the grocery store.
In Greek mythology, the Minotaur [b] (Ancient Greek: Μινώταυρος, Mīnṓtauros), also known as Asterion, is a mythical creature portrayed during classical antiquity with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man [4] (p 34) or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, a being "part man and part bull".
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 ...
The food safety watchdog has warned consumers not to buy or eat fake and potentially unsafe Prime or Wonka chocolate bars. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said it had received reports of fake ...
After allowing the Minotaur to kill them, Minos has their bodies publicly hung on the monument. The Furies visit a heartbroken Ariadne, saying that they want to talk about her twin brother Glaucus . Ari has always been traumatised by the knowledge that when she was a baby she had accidentally suffocated Glaucus after rolling on top of him in ...