Glaucus of Corinth
Corinthian king and charioteer who fed his mares on human flesh; they devoured him during the funeral games of Pelias.
The Legend of Glaucus of Corinth
Glaucus was the son of Sisyphus and Merope, king of Corinth, and father of Bellerophon. He was passionately devoted to horses and, in his ambition to breed the swiftest animals possible, fed his mares on human flesh in hopes of making them more fierce in racing. The goddess Aphrodite — or Potniae, the goddess of horses — was angered by this transgression and drove the mares mad. At the funeral games held for Pelias in Thessaly, Glaucus competed in the chariot race. His maddened mares threw him from the chariot, entangled him in the reins, and dragged him around the course before eventually eating him. His ghost, called Taraxippus, was said to haunt the Isthmus of Corinth and frighten horses during races there — explaining sudden panics and crashes at the Isthmian Games. His story forms an ironic mirror to his son Bellerophon's taming of Pegasus.
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Bellerophon, Deliades
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Fun Fact
The ghost of Glaucus, called Taraxippus ("horse-frightener"), was said to haunt the Isthmus of Corinth — ancient Greeks used his story to explain the inexplicable panics that caused chariot crashes at the Isthmian Games.
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