Glaucus
Glaucus names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Glaucus A son of Minos the Second and Pasiphae
1000 Classical Characters (1900)
A son of Minos the Second and Pasiphae, who was smothered in a cask of honey. The soothsayer Polyidus, on being commanded by Minos to find his son, discovered him, and by rubbing his body with a certain herb restored him to life. Glycera (The Sweet One). A favorite name of courtesans. Gordianus, M. Antonius Africanus. Son of Metius Marcellus . He applied himself to poetry, and composed a poem in thirty books. He was sent as proconsul to Africa, and subsequently, when he had attained his eightieth year, he was proclaimed emperor. He • strangled himself at Carthage A. D. 236, and was deeply lamented by the army and the people. Gordianus, M. Antonius Africanus. Son of Gordianus, was made prefect of Rome, and afterward consul, by Alexander Severus. He was elected emperor in conjunction with his father. He was killed in a battle fought with Maximinus in Mauritania. Gordianus, M. Antonius Pius. Grandson of the first Gordianus. He was proclaimed emperor in the sixteenth year of his age. He married the daughter of Misetheus, who was distinguished by his virtues, and to whom Gordian entrusted many of the chief offices of the state. Gordian conquered Sapor , king of Persia, and took 'many cities from him. He was assassinated A. D. 244.
Glaucus A fisherman of Boeotia
1000 Classical Characters (1900)
A fisherman of Boeotia . He observed that the fishes which he caught and laid on the grass became invigorated and leaped into the sea. He tasted the grass, and suddenly felt a desire to live in the sea. He was made a sea deity by Oceanus and Tethys.
Glaucus A son of Hippolochus
1000 Classical Characters (1900)
A son of Hippolochus, the son of Bellerophon . He aided Priam in the Trojan war, and was noted for his folly in exchanging his golden armor with Diomedes for an iron one.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Nothing has happened to these three Glaucuses since 1000 Classical Characters set them out in 1900; the stories are as the ancient sources tell them and no new evidence can alter them. What has shifted is interpretation. The 1900 book calls the son of Hippolochus "noted for his folly in exchanging his golden armor with Diomedes for an iron one" (Iliad VI); modern readers of Homer treat that exchange as the classic illustration of xenia, the guest-friendship between hereditary family friends that stops the two men fighting, with Homer himself remarking that Zeus had taken away Glaucus's wits. The book's casual "Minos the Second" also belongs to an older scholarly habit of splitting Minos into two kings to tidy up the chronology, a device now largely abandoned.
Written for this edition, 2026.