Glaucos (Corinth)
See also: Glaucos
In the Greek Mythology, Glaucos (in Greek old Γλαῦκος /Glaũkos), wire of Sisyphus and the Pleiad Mérope, is king of Corinthe.
Myth
The Catalog of the women tells the adventures of his/her father who seeks a wife to him: Sisyphus chooses initially Mestra, girl of Érysichthon. However, this one has the capacity to be metamorphosed - to be able exploited by his/her father who collects the dowries by giving it in marriage several times before seeing it returning to him in another form. Sisyphus is him also misled. To solve the quarrel, one of the goddesses is called as a referee: it allots Mnestra to Glaucos, but Zeus which refuses to see remaining the line of Sisyphus, makes remove the young girl by Poséidon.
Finally, Glaucos marries Eurymède (also called Eurynome), girl of the Pandionide Nisos. She gives him several children of which most known is Bellérophon (fourth century BC) and Asclépiade de Samos (third century BC) in Glaucos of Potniai which, following the example Diomède, nourishes its horses of human flesh so that they become more aggressive, and finishes devoured by them. It is apparently the subject of a lost tragedy Eschyle, Glaucos de Potniai ( Γλαῦκος Ποτνιεὐς ). Servius (4th century a. J. - C.) offers an explanation different from the end of Glaucos: this one having scorned worship of Aphrodite (or prevented its horses from reproducing so that they run more quickly), the goddess would have made insane the horses.
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