Glaucus

The child of Minos and Pasiphae who drowned in a jar of honey and was raised from the dead by the seer Polyidus using the herb a serpent used to revive its mate (Apollod. 3.3.1-2; Hyg. Fab. 136); a variant credits Asclepius (Apollod. 3.10.3). The subject of lost tragedies by Sophocles (Manteis) and Euripides (Polyidus). DISTINCT from greek_glaucus_corinth (the Corinthian, the taraxippus devoured by his own mares), from Glaucus the sea-god (Glaukos Pontios), and from Glaucus the Lycian of the Iliad. Authored as quartigod by the descent math (Minos demigod 0.5 + unregistered Pasiphae as mortal 0, /2 = 0.25). He dies and is resurrected within the heroic-age, so the lifecycle carries a death stage and a restored-to-life stage (both era heroic-age) and final vitalStatus is living.

Parentage

• Minos

Domains

• death and restoration
• honey and the jar

Powers

• Is raised from the dead by the serpent-herb
• Is briefly taught, then made to forget, the art of divination

Relations

• father: Minos
• sibling: Phaedra
• sibling: Ariadne
• sibling: Androgeos
• sibling: Catreus

Sources

• Apollodorus 3.1.2, 3.3.1-2, 3.10.3; Hyginus Fabulae 136, Astronomica 2.14; Sophocles Manteis/Polyidus (lost, frr. 389a-400 Radt); Euripides Polyidus (lost); Aelian, De Natura Animalium 5.2
• Timothy Gantz, Early Greek Myth (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1993), pp. 270-271
• Apollod. 3.1.2, 3.3.1 (son of Minos and Pasiphae)