Son of Sisyphus and king of Ephyra (Corinth); father of Bellerophon, and the link by which the craft of Sisyphus passes to the slayer of the Chimera.1
He stands at the centre of the Corinthian pedigree that Glaucus of Lycia recites to Diomedes on the battlefield of Troy: there was a city Ephyre in the heart of Argos, and there dwelt Sisyphus, craftiest of men; Sisyphus begat Glaucus, and Glaucus begat peerless Bellerophon.2
Apollodorus fills out the line Homer leaves bare: Glaucus, son of Sisyphus, had by Eurymede a son Bellerophon, who slew the fire-breathing Chimera — so the throne of Ephyra and the heroic blood pass through Glaucus from the trickster of Corinth to its greatest hero.3
His own end is grim and told only by Hyginus: at the funeral games of Pelias his mares, maddened, tore Glaucus apart — the origin of the ghost-horse Taraxippos that frightened teams at the Isthmus.4
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