Glaucus (son of Sisyphus)

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For other uses, see Glaucus (mythology).

In

Oxyrhynchus Papyrus.[3]

Family

The mother of Glaucus was

Almus, Thersander and Ornytion (Porphyrion
)

At first, Sisyphus had tried to arrange a marriage for Glaucus with the

Eurynome.[8] Zeus had declared that Glaucus would sire no children even by his own wife, perhaps because of his violations against Aphrodite. While Eurynome gave birth to the famed hero Bellerophon, Poseidon is usually seen as the true father.[6][9] The Iliad, however, names Glaucus as Bellerophon's father.[10] The equine theme continues: Poseidon was associated with horses, and Bellerophon was the rider of the winged horse Pegasus. By his wife, Glaucus became the father of Alcimenes (Deliades or Piren) who was unintentionally murdered by his own hero brother.[11]

Glaucus was the ancestor of the

Glaucus in the Iliad, through his son Bellerophon who ventured to Lycia.[12]

Mythology

Glaucus took part in the

chariot race. A fragment from Aeschylus's tragedy has sometimes been taken to mean that Glaucus died in a chariot accident on the way home, but it seems more probable that the accident occurred during the race.[13] According to Pausanias,[14] Glaucus haunted the Isthmian Games as a form of Taraxippus
, because he was killed by his horses during the funeral games.

There are two main traditions concerning the death of Glaucus.

Hippolytus: he offended the goddess Aphrodite (Venus) either by keeping his mares from mating in order to preserve their speed,[6][18] or by scorning her in general.[19] The goddess then brings retribution upon him through his horses.[20] In other sources, the mares are driven into their man-killing frenzy by consuming either an herb in their Boeotian pasture at Potniae[6][21] or water from a toxic well.[22][23][24] Gilbert Murray saw Hippolytus, Glaucus and their ilk as undergoing sparagmos as vegetation deities.[25]

In the

Varro: when a stallion kept refusing to mate, the handler succeeded by covering its head; when uncovered, the stallion attacked him and killed him by biting.[27]

Notes

  1. ^ Gilbert Murray, The Eumenides of Aeschylus (Oxford University Press, 1925), p. 15.
  2. ^ A.F. Garvie, Aeschylus: Persae (Oxford University Press, 2009), p. xliii.
  3. ^ H.D. Broadhead, The Persae of Aeschylus (Cambridge University Press, 1960), p. lviii.
  4. ^ Asclepiades, 12F1; Homer, Iliad 6.154–155 (Merope is not named); Apollodorus, 1.9.3
  5. ^ Hesiod, Ehoiai frg. 43a 2–83; cf. West (1985a, p. 64)
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  7. ^ Apollodorus, 1.9.3
  8. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 157
  9. ^ Hesiod, fr. 43a 2–83; Pindar, Olympian Ode 13.66–69
  10. ^ Homer, Iliad 6.154
  11. ^ Apollodorus, 1.9.3
  12. ^ Lowell Edmunds, Approaches to Greek Myth (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), p. 13.
  13. ^ a b Garvie, Aeschylus: Persae, p. xliv.
  14. ^ Pausanias, 6.20.10–19, as noted by Stephen G. Miller, Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources (University of California Press, 2004), p. 56.
  15. ^ Katharina Volk, Vergil's Georgics (Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 60.
  16. ^ As recorded by Probus and attributed to Asclepiades Tragilensis; Volk, Vergil's Georgics, p. 60
  17. ^ Pausanias, 6.20.19; Hyginus, Fabulae 250
  18. ^ Vergil, Georgics 3.266–288, with Servius's note to line 268
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  20. ^ Volk, Vergil's Georgics, p. 60.
  21. Scholium to Euripides
    , Orestes 318; "Porniades" in Etymological Magnum
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  23. ^ Servius, note to Aeneid 268
  24. ^ Pausanias, 9.8.1
  25. ^ Gilbert Murray, Aeschylus: The Creator of Tragedy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940), p. 113.
  26. ^ Vergil, Georgics 3.266–268
  27. ^ Varro, On Agriculture 2.7.9

References

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