Glaucus (son of Sisyphus)
Glaucus (Greek Γλαῦκος ) In Greek mythology, the son of King Sisyphus of Corinth and Merope. He was the husband of Eurynome (or Eurymede ) and father of Bellerophon.
Marriage of Glaucus
Sisyphus campaigned for his son Glaucus to Mestra, the daughter of Erysichthon. He paid Erysichthon cattle, sheep and goats as bride price and Glaucus married Mestra. Because he knew that she had often escaped her suitors, Glaucus tied her on the wedding night. But as a lover of Poseidon she had the ability to transform themselves, fled again and returned to her father. So it came to disputes between Sisyphus and Erysichthon which were only resolved when Athena Mestra zusprach the Glaucus. But she was hardly arrived in Corinth, kidnapped by Poseidon. Glaucus now courted Eurynome, daughter of Nisos and begat with her Bellerophon Deliades, Piren and Alkimenes.
As a father of Bellerophon, however, also often mentioned Poseidon is said to have witnessed this (under the name Chrysaor ) and his brother Pegasos with the decapitated Medusa. In another story, to be named as parents the marine Glaucus gods and Eurynome.
Death of Glaucus
Akastos of Iolcus organized funeral games for his late father Pelias. Glaucus fed his race horses with human flesh to make them lively and kept them away from studs, and Aphrodite angry. In the car race against Iolaus Glaucus was thrown and torn to pieces by his angry mares from the chariot. His body, or what was left of it, was buried on the Isthmus of Corinth and Glaucus was since as a daemon, Taraxippos ( " Ross Esch Eucher "), which made the horses shy at the Isthmian games.
In another version of those horses, which he kept on his farm in Potniai were related to the Harpies and Gorgons, which is why they had to be fed with human flesh. They should also have been identical with the horses of Diomedes.