Glauce, one of the 50
Nereids, marine-nymph daughters of the '
Old Man of the Sea'
Nereus and the
OceanidDoris.[4] She personifies the color of the sea which can be attributed to her name that signifies "sea-green"[5] or "bright green".[6] Glauce and her other sisters appear to
Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of
Achilles at the slaying of his friend
Patroclus.[7]
Glauce, mother, by
Upis, of "the third"
Artemis in
Cicero's rationalized genealogy of the Greek gods.[8]
Glauce, a Corinthian princess as the daughter of King
Creon.[10] Also known by the name
Creusa, predominantly in Latin authors, e.g.
Seneca[11] and
Propertius.[12]Hyginus[13] uses both names interchangeably. In
Cherubini'soperaMedea she is known as
Dircé. She married
Jason. Creusa was killed, along with her father, by
Medea, who either sent her a
peplos steeped in flammable poison or set fire to the royal palace.[14] 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.[15]
Glauce, an
Amazon.[16] Some say that it was she, and not
Antiope, who was abducted by
Theseus and became his wife.[17]
Glauce, a
Salaminian princess as the daughter of King
Cychreus, son of
Poseidon and
Salamis. Some sources say that Glauce married
Actaeus and bore him a son
Telamon.[18] Others say that Telamon was her husband and that, after her death, he married
Periboea, mother of
Ajax.[19]
Glauce, a princess of
Colonae as daughter of King
Cycnus, sister of
Cobis and
Corianus. During the Trojan campaign, she was taken captive by the Greeks and was given to
Ajax,[20] by whom she became mother of
Aeantides.[21]
Lactantius, Divine Institutes translated by William Fletcher (1810-1900). From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 7. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragedies. Translated by Miller, Frank Justus. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1917.
Online version at theio.com.
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
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Glauce, one of the 50
Nereids, marine-nymph daughters of the '
Old Man of the Sea'
Nereus and the
OceanidDoris.[4] She personifies the color of the sea which can be attributed to her name that signifies "sea-green"[5] or "bright green".[6] Glauce and her other sisters appear to
Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of
Achilles at the slaying of his friend
Patroclus.[7]
Glauce, mother, by
Upis, of "the third"
Artemis in
Cicero's rationalized genealogy of the Greek gods.[8]
Glauce, a Corinthian princess as the daughter of King
Creon.[10] Also known by the name
Creusa, predominantly in Latin authors, e.g.
Seneca[11] and
Propertius.[12]Hyginus[13] uses both names interchangeably. In
Cherubini'soperaMedea she is known as
Dircé. She married
Jason. Creusa was killed, along with her father, by
Medea, who either sent her a
peplos steeped in flammable poison or set fire to the royal palace.[14] 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.[15]
Glauce, an
Amazon.[16] Some say that it was she, and not
Antiope, who was abducted by
Theseus and became his wife.[17]
Glauce, a
Salaminian princess as the daughter of King
Cychreus, son of
Poseidon and
Salamis. Some sources say that Glauce married
Actaeus and bore him a son
Telamon.[18] Others say that Telamon was her husband and that, after her death, he married
Periboea, mother of
Ajax.[19]
Glauce, a princess of
Colonae as daughter of King
Cycnus, sister of
Cobis and
Corianus. During the Trojan campaign, she was taken captive by the Greeks and was given to
Ajax,[20] by whom she became mother of
Aeantides.[21]
Lactantius, Divine Institutes translated by William Fletcher (1810-1900). From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 7. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragedies. Translated by Miller, Frank Justus. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1917.
Online version at theio.com.
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.