Icarus Atlas

Sisyphus

Founder of Ephyra, the city later called Corinth — craftiest of men, whose son Glaucus begat Bellerophon.1Pseudo-Apollodorus · Homer — Apollod. 1.9.3; Il. 6.152–155

Glaucus of Corinth

Son of Sisyphus and king of Ephyra; father of Bellerophon, slayer of the Chimera.2Homer · Pseudo-Apollodorus — Il. 6.154–155; Apollod. 1.9.3

III

King of Corinth in the Oedipus saga — not the Ithacan suitor Polybus nor any other homonym; his neatherds found the exposed infant on Cithaeron and Periboea raised him as their son.3Pseudo-Apollodorus · Hyginus — Apollod. 3.5.7; Hyg. Fab. 66

Creon

King of Corinth in the Jason–Medea episode — distinct from Creon of Thebes (`creon`); betrothed Glauce to Jason and perished in Medea's poisoned robe.4Pseudo-Apollodorus · Hyginus · Ovid — Apollod. 1.9.28; Hyg. Fab. 25; Ov. Met. 7.391–424

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MYTHS SET HERE

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Bellerophon and the ChimeraEphyra, city of Sisyphus and Bellerophon's birth Oedipus at ThebesCity where Polybus and Periboea raised Oedipus until he fled to Delphi The ArgonauticaWhere Jason forsook Medea for Glauce Medea at CorinthCity of the ten years and the catastrophe The Wanderings of AlcmaeonWhere Creon fostered Alcmaeon's children in the Euripidean variant

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Coordinates: Pleiades gazetteer, CC BY · place 570067