Glauce, one of the 50 Nereids, marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the OceanidDoris.[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 to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles at the slaying of his friend Patroclus.[7]
Glauce, mother, by Upis, of "the third" Artemis in Cicero's rationalized genealogy of the Greek gods.[8]
Glauce, a Corinthian princess as the daughter of King Creon.[10] Also known by the name Creusa, predominantly in Latin authors, e.g. Seneca[11] and Propertius.[12]Hyginus[13] uses both names interchangeably. In Cherubini'soperaMedea she is known as Dircé. She married Jason. Creusa was killed, along with her father, by Medea, who either sent her a peplos steeped in flammable poison or set fire to the royal palace.[14] In the local Corinthian 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, an Amazon.[16] Some say that it was she, and not Antiope, who was abducted by Theseus and became his wife.[17]
Glauce, a Salaminian princess as the daughter of King Cychreus, son of Poseidon and Salamis. Some sources say that Glauce married Actaeus and bore him a son Telamon.[18] Others say that Telamon was her husband and that, after her death, he married Periboea, mother of Ajax.[19]
Glauce, a princess of Colonae as daughter of King Cycnus, sister of Cobis and Corianus. During the Trojan campaign, she was taken captive by the Greeks and was given to Ajax,[20] by whom she became mother of Aeantides.[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.
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