Glauce
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In Greek mythology, Glauce (Ancient Greek: Γλαυκή "blue-gray"), Latin Glauca, refers to seven different people:
- Glauce, daughter of Creon. She married Jason. She was killed, along with her father, by Medea, who either sent her a peplos steeped in inflammable poison or set fire to the royal palace[1][2]. In the local Corinthian tradition, Glauce threw herself into a well in a vain attempt to wash off Medea's poison; from this circumstance the well became known as the Well of Glauce[3]. Also known by the name Creusa, predominantly in Latin authors, e.g. Seneca (Medea) and Propertius (2.16.30). Hyginus (Fab. 25) uses both names interchangeably.
- Glauce, one of the Nereids[4][5][6].
- Glauce, one of the Danaids, daughter of Danaus. She married Alces, son of Aegyptus and an Arabian woman[7].
- Glauce, daughter of Cychreus, son of Poseidon and Salamis. Some sources say that Glauce married Actaeus and bore him a son Telamon[8]. Others say that Telamon was her husband and that, after her death, he married Periboea, mother of Ajax[9].
- Glauce, an Arcadian nymph, one of the nurses of Zeus[10].
- Glauce, an Amazon[11]. Some say that it was she, and not Antiope, who was abducted by Theseus and became his wife[12][13].
- Glauce, daughter of Cycnus, sister of Cobis and Corianus. During the Trojan campaign, she was taken captive by the Greeks and was given to Ajax[14], by whom she became mother of Aeantides[15].
- Glauce, one of the Melian nymphs[16].
- Glauce, mother, by Upis, of "the third" Artemis in Cicero's rationalized genealogy of the Greek gods[17].
- Glauce, twin sister of Pluto that died an infant according to Euhemerus[18].
[edit] References
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 1. 9. 28
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 54. 2 - 6
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 3. 6
- ^ Homer, Iliad, 18. 39
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony, 244
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 2. 1. 5
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 12. 6 with reference to Pherecydes
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 72. 7
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8. 47. 3
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 163
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, Epitome of Book 4, 5. 2
- ^ Scholia on Iliad, 3. 189
- ^ Dictys Cretensis, 2. 13
- ^ Dictys Cretensis, 5. 16
- ^ Tzetzes on Theogony, 101
- ^ Cicero, De natura deorum, 3. 23
- ^ Lactantius, Institutiones Divinae, 1. 14. 5, citing Ennius
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