Glauke (daughter of Creon)

Glauke ( ancient Greek Γλαύκη ) is the daughter of King Creon of Corinth in Greek mythology . Her name was also passed down as Kreusa.

After the description in Euripides ' tragedy Medea , Jason fell in love with Creon's daughter, whose name Euripides did not mention, and wanted to marry her. His jealous wife Medea , expelled from the city by Creon, killed her rival by sending her a poisoned veil as a wedding gift, which burned her inside. When her father rushed to help, he too was killed. According to Pausanias , a spring was shown in Corinth, into which Glauke had thrown himself in the hope that the water might help against the poison.

swell

• Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 9, 28
• Diodorus 4.54
• Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 25
• Pausanias 2,3,6
• Hypostasis to Euripides, Medea

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Glauke 4 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, column 1676 ( digitized version ).