Glaucias
(Γλαυκίας).
1. King of the Illyrians, or rather of the Taulantians, one of the Illyrian tribes. He is first mentioned as bringing a considerable force to the assistance of Cleitus, another llyrian prince, against Alexander the Great, B. C. 335. They were, however, both defeated, and Cleitus forced to take refuge within the Taulantian territories, whither Alexander did not pursue him, his attention being called elsewhere by rathe news of the revolt of Thebes. (Arrian, 1.5, 6.) We next hear of Glaucias, nearly 20 years later, as affording an asylum to the infant Pyrrhus, when his father Aeacides was driven out of Epeirus. (Plut. Pyrrh. 3; Just. 17.3.) By this measure he gave offence to Cassander, who sought to gain possession of Epeirus for himself, and who in vain offered Glaucias 200 talents to give up the child. Not long after, the Macedonian king invaded his territories, and defeated him in battle; but though Glaucias bound himself by the treaty which ensued to refrain from hostilities against the allies of Cassander, he still retained Pyrrhus at his court, and, in B. C. 307, took the opportunity, after the death of Alcetas, king of Epeirus, to invade that country with an army, and establish the young prince, then 12 years old, upon the throne. (Diod 19.67; Plut. Pyrrh. 3; Just. 17.3; Paus. 1.11.5.) The territories of Glaucias bordered upon those of the Greek cities, Apollonia and Epidamnus; and this proximity involved him in frequent hostilities with those states; in 312 he even made himself master of Epidamnus, by the assistance of the Corcyraeans. (Diod. 19.70, 78.) The date of his death is not mentioned; but it appears that he was still reigning in B. C. 302, when Pyrrhus repaired to his court, to be present at the marriage of one of his sons. (Plut. Pyrrh. 4.)
2. An officer of cavalry in the service of Alexander at the battle of Gaugamela. (Arrian, 3.11.)
3. (Perhaps the same with the preceding). A follower of Cassander, whom he entrusted with the charge of Roxana and her son Alexander when he confined them as prisoners in the citadel of Amphipolis. After the peace of B. C. 311, Cassander sent secret orders to Glaucias to put both his capwas for tives to death, which instructions be immediately obeyed. (Diod. 19.52, 105.) [E.H.B]
(Γλαυκίας), a rhetorician of Athens, who appears to have lived in the first century of our aera, but he is mentioned only by Plutarch (Sympos. 1.10, 3, 2.2). [L.S]
(Γλαυκίας), a Greek physician, belonging to the sect of the Empirici (Galen, De Meth. Med. 2.7, vol. x. p. 142, Comment. in Hippocr. " Epid. VI." 3.29, vol. xvii. pt. ii. p. 94), who lived after Serapion of Alexandria, and before Heracleides of Tarentum, and therefore probably in the third or second century B. C. (Celsus, De Medic. i. Paef. p. 5.) Galen mentionshim as one of the earliest commentators on the whole of the works of Hippocrates (Comment. in Hippocr. "De Humor." 1.24, vol. xvi. p. 196), and he also wrote an alphabetical glossary on the difficult words occurring in the Hippocratic collection. (Erot. Gloss. Hippocr. p. 16, ed. Franz.) His commentaries on Hippocrates are several times quoted and referred to by Galen. (Comment. in Hippocr. " De Humor." i. Praef. 2.30, vol. xvi. pp. 1, 324, 327; Comment. in Hippocr. "Epid. VI." i. Praef. 2.65, vol. xvii. pt. i. pp. 794, 992.) It is uncertain whether he is the person quoted by Pliny. (H. N. 20.99, 21.102, 22.47, 24.91.) Fabricius says he was the master of Heracleides of Tarentum, and Apollonius, but for this statement the writer has not been able to find any authority. (Bibl. Graec. vol. xiii. p. 171, ed. Vet.) [W.A.G]
(Γλαυκίας), a statuary of Aegina, who made the bronze chariot and statue of Gelon, the son of Deinomenes, afterwards tyrant of Sycuse, in commemoration of his victory in the chariot race at Olympia, Ol. 73, B. C. 488. The following bronze statues at Olympia were also by Glaucias:--Philon, whose victory was recorded in the following epigram by Simonides, the son of Leoprepes,-- Πατρὶς μὲν Κορκύρα, φίλων δʼ ὄνομʼ, εἰμὶ δὲ Γλαύκου Υἱὸς, καὶ νίκη πὺξ δύʼ ὀλυμπιάδας:
Glaucus of Carystus, the boxer, practising strokes (σκιαμαχῶν); and Theagenes of Thasos, who conquered Euthymus in boxing in Ol. 75, B. C. 480 (Paus. 6.6.2). Glaucias therefore flourished B. C. 488-480 (Paus. 6.9.3, 10.1, 11.3). [P.S]
(Γλαυκίας). (1) An Illyrian king who fought against Alexander the Great in B.C. 335. In 316 he offered a refuge to Pyrrhus, then an infant, and refused to give him up to Cassander. Nine years later he invaded Epirus and placed Pyrrhus on the throne of that country. See Pyrrhus.
(2) An Aeginetan statuary who flourished in B.C. 488. He made a bronze chariot and statue of Gelon (q.v.).
- wins prize for singing at Pythian games: Paus. 10.7.4
- dedicates image of Hermes at Olympia: Paus. 5.27.8
- Paus. 6.9.5, 9, Paus. 6.10.3, Paus. 6.11.9