Glaucus of Corinth- Greek FigureMortal"King of Corinth"

Son of Sisyphus

Glaucus was the son of Sisyphus, the man who chained Death and tricked his way out of the underworld, and Merope, one of the seven Pleiades. He ruled Corinth, still called Ephyra in the heroic age. His son was Bellerophon, the rider who tamed Pegasus and killed the Chimaera, though Apollodorus records a tradition that Poseidon, not Glaucus, fathered the boy by Glaucus's wife Eurymede.

The Maddened Mares

Glaucus kept his mares at Potniae in Boeotia and refused to let them breed. Celibacy, he believed, made them fiercer in the chariot. Aphrodite took it as an insult.

At the funeral games of Pelias, Glaucus entered the race. Apollodorus says Aphrodite herself drove the mares mad. Virgil, in the Georgics, blames a spring sacred to Ares near Potniae whose water poisoned the animals. Aelian points to an herb of madness they grazed upon. The mares overturned the chariot and fell on their driver. They tore Glaucus apart and ate his flesh, in full view of the heroes gathered to honor the dead king.

The Taraxippus

His ghost haunted the hippodrome. Pausanias records a tradition that Glaucus became the Taraxippus, a horse-frightening presence at the turning post of the Olympic racetrack. Horses panicked as they passed it, throwing races into chaos. Drivers sacrificed before competing, hoping their teams would hold steady through the turn.