GLAUCUS (“bright”), the name of several figures in Greek mythology, the most important of which are the following:

  1. Glaucus (Pontius) (see Glaucus 1.)
  2. Glaucus (son of Sisyphus) (see Glaucus 2.)
  3. Glaucus (son of Minos) (see Glaucus 3.)
  4. Glaucus (son of Hippolochus) (see Glaucus 4.).


All the above are exhaustively treated by R. Gaedechens in Ersch and Gruber’s Allgemeine Encyclopädie.