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In Greek Mythology , Glaucus ("shiny" or "bright" or "bluish-green") referred to several different people.





God

Glaucus was a Greek sea-god, the son of Anthedon and Alcyone . The story of his origin is made into a Roman entertainment by Ovid , that he began as a mortal fisherman living in the Boeotian city of Anthedon and one day he caught and landed some fish at a place where there grew an Herb with the magic property of resuscitating fish and allowing them to return to the water. Seeing this effect the herb had on the fish, Glaucus ate some of it too. The herb made him immortal, but it also gave him fins and caused his legs to transform into a fish's tail, forcing him to dwell forever in the sea. Glaucus was initially upset by this side-effect, but Oceanus and Tethys received him well and he was quickly accepted among the deities of the sea, learning the art of Prophecy at which they were skilled.


SCYLLA


Scylla was a beautiful nymph who was widely courted but rejected all of her suitors for she loved nothing but playing with her sister nymphs. One day Glaucus saw her and immediately he fell in love with the sea-goddess Scylla , who rejected him due to his piscine form.


CIRCE


He consulted with Circe for a solution but she became passionately in love with him herself. And she tried to win his heart with her most passionate and loving words. And she told him to scorn Scylla and find someone who will love you in return. But he replied that trees would grow on the ocean floor and seaweed would grow on the highest mountain before he would stop loving Scylla.


THE MONSTER SCYLLA


Circe was mad. She didn't punish Glaucus, she couldn't, she loved him too much. Instead she turned her anger toward Scylla. She made a potion to turn Scylla into a monster and put it into the water where she was bathing. Scylla's bottom half turned into barking dogs.


SAILORS


Euripides wrote in his play ''Orestes'' that Glaucus was a son of Nereus and says that he assisted Menelaus on his homeward journey with good advice. He also helped the Argonauts . It was believed that he commonly came to the rescue of sailors in storms, having once been one himself.


GLAUCUS IN ART


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 .




OTHER GLAUCUS'



King

Glaucus was a Corinth ian king, son of Merope and Sisyphus . He angered Aphrodite and she made her horses angry during the funeral games of King Pelias . They tore him apart. His ghost supposedly frightened horses during the Isthmian Games . He was also the father of Bellerophon .


Soldier

Glaukos was a son of Hippolochus and a grandson of Bellerophon . He was a captain in the Lycian army under the command of his close friend and cousin Sarpedon . The Lycians in the Trojan War were allies of Troy . During the war Glaukos fought valiantly. In the '' Iliad '' he met Diomedes in the field of battle in face to face combat. In response to Diomedes challenge to him, Glaukos said that as a grandson of Bellerophon he would fight anybody. On learning of Glaukos' ancestry Diomedes planted his spear in the ground and told of how his grandfather Oeneus was a close friend of Bellerophon, and declared that the two of them despite being on opposing sides should continue the friendship. As a sign of friendship Diomedes took off his bronze armour and gave it to Glaukos. Glaukos then had his wits taken by Zeus and gave Diomedes his gold armour. Glaukos was in the division of Sarpedon and Asteropaios when the Trojans assaulted the greek wall. Their division fought valiantly causing Hector to break through the wall. During this assult Glaukos was wounded from an arrow shot by Teucer forcing him to withdrawal from combat. Later, upon seeing Sarpedon mortally wounded, Glaukus asked for Apollo to help him rescue the body of his dying friend. Apollo cured his wound and Glaukus rallied the Trojans around the body as they fought off the Greeks until the gods took the body away. Later in the war, when fighting over Achilles corpse took place, Glaukos was killed by Aias . His body however, was rescued by Aeneas and was then taken by Apollo to Lycia for funeral rites.

There is also an Astroid named after the Trojan hero.

'' Iliad II, 876; VI, 199.''




Child

Glaucus or '''Glaukos''' was a son of Minos and Pasiphae .

One day, Glaucus was playing with a ball or Mouse and suddenly disappeared. His parents went to the Oracle at Delphi who told them "A marvelous creature has been born amongst you: whoever finds the true likeness for this creature will also find the child."

They interpreted this to refer to a newborn calf in Minos' herd. Three times a day, the calf changed color from white to red to black. Polyidus observed the similarity to the ripening of the fruit of the Mulberry (or possibly the Blackberry ) plant, and Minos sent him to find Glaucus.

Searching for the boy, Polyidus saw an Owl driving Bee s away from a wine-cellar in Minos' palace. Inside the wine-cellar was a cask of honey, with Glaucus dead inside. Minos demanded Glaucus be brought back to life, though Polyidus objected. Minos was justified in his insistence, as the Delphic Oracle had said that the seer would restore the child alive. Minos shut Polyidus up in the wine-cellar with a sword. When a Snake appeared nearby, Polyidus killed it with the sword. Another snake came for the first, and after seeing its mate dead, the second serpent left and brought back an Herb which then brought the first snake back to life. 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 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 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".