Glaucus

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Glaucus ( ancient Greek Γλαῦκος, blue glossy, bright ), in Greek mythology, god of the sea, in a fisherman turned after consuming a miracle herb.

Myth

He was considered the son of Anthedon and Alcyone, of Polybus and Euboea, the Kopeus or of Poseidon and Nais and as the father of Deiphobe. Also he should have sired the Meeresbeherrscherin Eurynome the Bellerophon; as its parents but mostly Glaucus the Elder and Eurynome, daughter of Nisos be called.

In the Argonautica, he appears as fishermen in the seaside town Anthedon Boeotian, as the builder and helmsman of the Argo, the one with the Tyrrhenians came after the battle of the Argonauts miraculously to the dignity of God and the Iason prophesied. When he once namely fish, which he threw on the shore saw so blithely by the touch of herbs growing there, suddenly, as if they were in the water, he ate from these herbs and was moved by their indulgence in such enthusiasm that he jumped into the sea where it transformed Oceanus and Tethys in a sea deity. From the plant was also told it was a flower that bestowed immortality.

Others report, Glaucus had fallen out of love for the young sea god Melikertes in the lake.

Glaucus fell in love with Scylla and Circe asked for help so his feelings would be reciprocated. Kirke, who was, however, himself in love with Glaucus, Scylla was transformed into a monster.

As a sea deity he has the gift of prophecy. His usual residence should be on the island of Delos. His oracle on the island was at times more honorable than that of the Delian Apollo. On many islands and coasts of Greece, he enjoyed worship as a kind and gentle, against all castaways to help God willing. Thassilo of Scheffer described him as the god of the blue sea silence ( "Legends of the Stars" ).

Representation

Also the subject of dramatic representations was Glaucus; there is one in front of all of Glaucus Pontios of Aeschylus, but which is preserved only in fragments.

It appears in triton -like shape on sculptures; his appearance is rough and shaggy, covered the chest with seaweed and shells, blond head and beard hair by lush fullness.

Swell

  • Aeschylus, fragments, 13-19; 203; 230; 231; 273; 278
  • Claudian, Proserpina, 3, 1
  • Diodorus, Libraries, 4, 48, 6; 4, 49, 1
  • Fabius Claudius Gordianus Fulgentius, Mythologies, 2, 93
  • Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 1, 184; 2, 277; 2, 592; 3, 149
  • Mythographus Hyginus, Fabulae, 199
  • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 7, 219; 13, 898-14, 74
  • Parthenius of Nicaea, love stories, fragment 30
  • Pausanias, traveling in Greece, 6, 10, 1 - 3
  • Flavius ​​Philostratus, The pictures, 2, 15
  • Publius Papinius Statius, Thebaid, 7, 309
  • Strabo, Geographica, 447
  • Virgil, Aeneid, 5, 823; 6, 14; 6, 36; 6, 477
  • Virgil, Georgics, 1, 437; 3, 242
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