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Glaucus (son of Sisyphus)
In Greek and Roman mythology, Glaucus (, ''Glaukos'') was a son of Sisyphus whose main myth involved his violent death as the result of his horsemanship. He was a king of Corinth〔Gilbert Murray, ''The Eumenides of Aeschylus'' (Oxford University Press, 1925), p. 15.〕 and the subject of a lost tragedy by Aeschylus, ''Glaucus Potnieus'' ''(Glaucus at Potniae)'',〔A.F. Garvie, ''Aeschylus: Persae'' (Oxford University Press, 2009), p. xliii.〕 fragments of which are contained in an Oxyrhynchus Papyrus.〔H.D. Broadhead, ''The Persae of Aeschylus'' (Cambridge University Press, 1960), p. lviii.〕
==The myth and its variants==
Glaucus took part in the funeral games organized in honor of Pelias by his son Acastus, the famous ''Athla epi Pelia'' in which some of the foremost heroes of Greece competed, including the Argonauts.〔Garvie, ''Aeschylus: Persae'', p. xliv.〕 Glaucus lost to Iolaus in the chariot race. A fragment from Aeschylus's tragedy has sometimes been taken to mean that Glaucus died in a chariot accident on the way home, but it seems more probable that the accident occurred during the race.〔 According to Pausanias,〔Pausanias 6.20.10–19, as noted by Stephen G. Miller, ''Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources'' (University of California Press, 2004), p. 56.〕 Glaucus haunted the Isthmian Games as a form of Taraxippus, because he was killed by his horses during the funeral games.
There are two main traditions concerning the death of Glaucus.〔Katharina Volk, ''Vergil's Georgics'' (Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 60.〕 In one, he feeds his mares on human flesh in order to make them fierce in battle, but at the games he has no supply for them, and they turn on their master and devour him instead.〔As recorded by Probus and attributed to Asclepiades Tragilensis; Volk, ''Vergil's Georgics'', p. 60. See also Hyginus, ''Fabula'' 250, and Pausanias 6.20.19, as noted by Robin Hand, ''The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology, Based on H.J. Rose's Handbook of Greek Mythology'' (Routledge, 2004), pp. 432, 663.〕 Servius, however, regards Glaucus as a doublet of Hippolytus: he offended the goddess Aphrodite (Venus) either by keeping his mares from mating in order to preserve their speed,〔Vergil, ''Georgics'' 3.266–288, with Servius's note to line 268; Hand, ''The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology'', pp. 432, 663.〕 or by scorning her in general.〔Hand, ''The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology'', p. 432.〕 The goddess then brings retribution upon him through his horses.〔Volk, ''Vergil's Georgics'', p. 60.〕 In other sources, the mares are driven into their man-killing frenzy by consuming either an herb in their Boeotian pasture at Potniae〔Scholium to Euripides, ''Orestes'' 318; "Porniades" in ''Er. Magn.''; Pliny the Elder, ''Natural History'' 25.94; Hand, ''The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology'', pp. 432, 663.〕 or water from a toxic well.〔Servius, note to ''Aeneid'' 268; well in Pausanias 9.8.1; Hand, ''The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology'', pp. 432, 663.〕 Gilbert Murray saw Hippolytus, Glaucus and their ilk as undergoing ''sparagmos'' as vegetation deities.〔Gilbert Murray, ''Aeschylus: The Creator of Tragedy'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940), p. 113.〕
In the ''Georgics'', Vergil casts the neglect of Venus as preventing the mares from mating.〔Vergil, ''Georgics'' 3.266–268.〕 That the Romans considered mating a hazard of horse husbandry is indicated by a strange anecdote from Vergil's older contemporary Varro: when a stallion kept refusing to mate, the handler succeeded by covering its head; when uncovered, the stallion attacked him and killed him by biting.〔Varro, ''On Agriculture'' 2.7.9.〕
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