Glauce, one of the 50Nereids, marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea'Nereus and theOceanidDoris.[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 toThetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief ofAchilles at the slaying of his friendPatroclus.[7]
Glauce, mother, byUpis, of "the third"Artemis inCicero's rationalized genealogy of the Greek gods.[8]
Glauce, a Corinthian princess as the daughter of KingCreon.[10] Also known by the nameCreusa, predominantly in Latin authors, e.g.Seneca[11] andPropertius.[12]Hyginus[13] uses both names interchangeably. InCherubini'soperaMedea she is known asDircé. She marriedJason. Creusa was killed, along with her father, byMedea, who either sent her apeplos steeped in flammable poison or set fire to the royal palace.[14] In the localCorinthian 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, anAmazon.[16] Some say that it was she, and notAntiope, who was abducted byTheseus and became his wife.[17]
Glauce, aSalaminian princess as the daughter of KingCychreus, son ofPoseidon andSalamis. Some sources say that Glauce marriedActaeus and bore him a sonTelamon.[18] Others say that Telamon was her husband and that, after her death, he marriedPeriboea, mother ofAjax.[19]
Glauce, a princess ofColonae as daughter of KingCycnus, sister ofCobis andCorianus. During the Trojan campaign, she was taken captive by the Greeks and was given toAjax,[20] by whom she became mother ofAeantides.[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 aninternal 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.
