Glaucus (son of Sisyphus)

For other uses, see Glaucus (mythology).

In Greek and Roman mythology, Glaucus (/ˈɡlɔːkəs/; Ancient Greek: Γλαῦκος Glaukos means "greyish blue" or "bluish green" and "glimmering"), usually surnamed as Potnieus, was a son of Sisyphus whose main myth involved his violent death as the result of his horsemanship. He was the king of the Boeotian city of Potniae or sometimes of Corinth.[1] Glaucus was the subject of a lost tragedy by Aeschylus, Glaucus Potnieus (Glaucus at Potniae),[2] fragments of which are contained in an Oxyrhynchus Papyrus.[3]

  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.