In Greek mythology, Glaucus (; ) was the name of the following figures: Glaucus, a sea-godPausanias, 9.22.7 Glaucus, son of Sisyphus and a Corinthian king.Gilbert Murray, The Eumenides of Aeschylus (Oxford University Press, 1925), p. 15. Glaucus, a mythical Lycian captain in the Trojan War.Homer, Iliad 2.876 & 6.199 Glaucus, son of King Minos of Crete.Hyginus, Fabulae 136 Glaucus, one of the twelve younger Panes, offspring of Pan. He came to join Dionysus in his campaign against India.Nonnus, 4.67 ff. Glaucus, son of Aretus and Laobie. He joined Deriades, along with his father and brothers, against Dionysus in the Indian War.Nonnus, 26.250 ff. Glaucus, one of the Dolionians, a people living in northwestern Asia Minor. He was killed by Jason when the Argonauts came to the country.Valerius Flaccus, 1.153 Glaucus, a Trojan prince and one of the sons of King Priam by an unknown woman.Apollodorus, 3.12.5; Dictys Cretensis, 4.7 He and his brothers, Antiphus, Agavus and Agathon, were all slain by Ajax the Great.Dictys Cretensis, 4.7 Glaucus, son of Antenor,Virgil, Aeneid 6.484; Apollodorus, Epitome 5.21; Dictys Cretensis, 4.7; Pausanias, 10.27.3 one of the Trojan elders, and Theano. He was the brother of Crino,Pausanias, 10.27.4 Acamas,Apollodorus, E.3.34; Homer, Iliad 2.823, 11.60 & 12.100 Agenor,Homer, Iliad 11.59, 21.545 & 579 Antheus,Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 134 Archelochus,Apollodorus, E.3.34; Homer, Iliad 2.823, 12.100 & 14.464 Coön,Homer, Iliad 11.248 & 256, 19.53 Demoleon,Homer, Iliad 20.395 Eurymachus,Pausanias, 10.27.3 Helicaon,Homer, Iliad 3.123 Hippolochus,Tzetzes, ad Lycophronem 874 Iphidamas,Homer, Iliad 11.221 & 261; Pausanias, 4.36.4 & 5.19.4 Laodamas,Homer, Iliad 15.516 Laodocus,Homer, Iliad 4.87 Medon,Virgil, Aeneid 6.484 PolybusHomer, Iliad 11.59 and Thersilochus. Glaucus was rescued during the sack of Troy by the intervention of Odysseus and Menelaus,Apollodorus, E.5.21 and, in a painting by Polygnotus, was depicted as sitting safely by the house of his father while the rest of the city burned.Pausanias, Description of Greece 10.27.3 Together with his brother Eurymachus, he accompanied Menelaus on his return voyage home. However, when the fleet reached Egypt, Glaucus and Eurymachus refused to continue travelling with those that had sacked Troy, and settled down in Cyrene. Alternatively, instead of Eurymachus, it was Glaucus' brothers Acamas and Hippolochus who settled with him. In a separate account, he was disowned by his father after accompanying Paris on his expedition to kidnap HelenDictys Cretensis, 3.26, and was later killed by Agamemnon during the war.Dictys Cretensis, 4.7 Aeneas later met him in the underworld.Virgil, Aeneid 6.483 Glaucus, one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Dulichium along with other 56 wooers.Apollodorus, E.7.26–27 He, with the other suitors, was shot dead by Odysseus with the aid of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.Apollodorus, E.7.33 Glaucus, a son of Aepytus.Pausanias, 4.3.9–10
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