Glaucus of Corinth’s Family Tree

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Family

• Merope(parent),Sisyphus(parent)— Marriage

  Sisyphus and Merope, one of the Pleiades, married and ruled Corinth. Their son Glaucus of Corinth fathered the hero Bellerophon. Merope aided Sisyphus's escape from the underworld by neglecting his funeral rites.

• Bellerophon(child)

  Glaucus of Corinth, son of Sisyphus, fathered Bellerophon, who grew to tame Pegasus and slay the Chimera before his pride brought him low on the Aleian plain.

  ⚠ Homer (Iliad 6.155) traces the mortal lineage through Glaucus son of Sisyphus. Apollodorus (Bibliotheca 2.3.1) and Hesiod's Catalogue of Women name Poseidon as Bellerophon's true father, with Glaucus as his mortal guardian.

Slain by

• Aphrodite

  Aphrodite maddened Glaucus of Corinth's mares for his refusal to let them breed, and they devoured him alive at the funeral games of Pelias. Aelian and Hyginus record her wrath as the cause.

Associated with

• Pelias

  Glaucus of Corinth competed in the funeral games held for King Pelias of Iolcus, where his maddened mares overturned his chariot and devoured him. Hyginus records this event in Fabulae 273.