In Greek mythology, Glauce (; Ancient Greek: Γλαύκη Glaukê means 'blue-gray' or 'gleaming'), Latin Glauca, refers to different people:
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Glauce, an Arcadian nymph, one of the nurses of Zeus. She and the other nurses were represented on the altar of Athena Alea at Tegea.
[Pausanias, 8.47.3]
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Glauce, twin sister of Pluto who died as an infant according to Euhemerus.
[Lactantius, Institutiones Divinae 1.14.5 citing Ennius]
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Glauce, one of the Meliae nymphs.
[Tzetzes on Hesiod, Theogony 101]
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Glauce, one of the 50 Nereids, marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanids Doris.
[Homer, Iliad 18.39; Hesiod, Theogony 244; Hyginus, Fabulae Preface] She personifies the color of the sea which can be attributed to her name that signifies "sea-green"[Homer, Iliad 18.39-51]
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Glauce, mother, by Upis, of "the third" Artemis in Cicero's rationalized genealogy of the Greek gods.
[Cicero, De natura deorum 3.23]
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Glauce, a Ancient Libya princess as one of the Danaïdes, daughters of King Danaus. Her mother was either Atlanteia or Phoebe, both were . Glauce married and murdered her cousin Alces, son of King Aegyptus of Ancient Egypt by an Arabian woman.
[Apollodorus, 2.1.5]
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Glauce, a Corinthian princess as the daughter of King Creon.
[ on Euripides, Medea 20] Also known by the name Creusa, predominantly in Latin authors, e.g. Seneca[Seneca, Medea 817 ff.] and Propertius.[Propertius, Elegies 2.16.30] Hyginus[Hyginus, Fabulae 25] uses both names interchangeably. In Luigi Cherubini opera Medea she is known as Dirce. She married Jason. Creusa was killed, along with her father, by Medea, who either sent her a peplos steeped in flammable poison or set fire to the royal palace.[Apollodorus, 1.9.28; Diodorus Siculus, 4.54.2–6] In the local tradition, Glauce threw herself into a well in a vain attempt to wash off Medea's poison; from this circumstance the well became known as the Well of Glauce.[Pausanias, 2.3.6]
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Glauce, an Amazons.
[Hyginus, Fabulae 163] Some say that it was she, and not Antiope, who was abducted by Theseus and became his wife.[Apollodorus, Epitome 5.2; Scholia on Homer, Iliad 3.189]
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Glauce, a Salamis Island princess as the daughter of King Cychreus, son of Poseidon and Salamis. Some sources say that Glauce married Actaeus and bore him a son Telamon.
[Apollodorus, 3.12. 6 with reference to Pherecydes] Others say that Telamon was her husband and that, after her death, he married Periboea, mother of Ajax.[Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.7]
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Glauce, a princess of Kolonai as daughter of King Cycnus, sister of Cobis and Corianus. During the Trojan campaign, she was taken captive by the Greeks and was given to Ajax,
[Dictys Cretensis, 2.13] by whom she became mother of Aeantides.[Dictys Cretensis, 5.16]
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Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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Dictys Cretensis , from The Trojan War. The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares Phrygius translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
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Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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Homer, Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. . Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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Lactantius, Divine Institutes translated by William Fletcher (1810–1900). From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 7. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragedies. Translated by Miller, Frank Justus. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1917. Online version at theio.com.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae. Rudolf Peiper. Gustav Richter. Leipzig. Teubner. 1921. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Cicero, Nature of the Gods from the Treatises of M.T. Cicero translated by Charles Duke Yonge (1812–1891), Bohn edition of 1878. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Natura Deorum. O. Plasberg. Leipzig. Teubner. 1917. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
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Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Propertius, Elegies from Charm. Vincent Katz. trans. Los Angeles. Sun & Moon Press. 1995. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Latin text available at the same website.
