←Galaxy/The codex of Glaucus

Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Glaucus.

In music & on stage

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Scylla et Glaucus

Jean-Marie Leclair

Leclair's tragédie en musique gives the Anthedonian sea-god the title role — Glaucus, Scylla, and Circe's revenge for the Paris Opéra.

In play

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Metamorphoses

Ovid

Books 13–14: the fisherman tastes the herb, becomes a blue-green god, loves Scylla, and watches Circe poison the strait.

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Glaucus

Semi-divine sea-dweller of Anthedon — distinct from the Lycian captain, forever bound to Scylla's transformation.