Glaucus is a
Greek nameGreek given names can be derived from the Greco-Roman gods, along with Ancient Greek traditions, or from the Old and New Testament and early Christian traditions. Some of the names are often, but not always, anglicised. Male names usually end in -ης and -ος, along with -α and -ων...
. In modern Greek usage, the name is usually transliterated
Glafkos.
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Glaucus is a
Greek nameGreek given names can be derived from the Greco-Roman gods, along with Ancient Greek traditions, or from the Old and New Testament and early Christian traditions. Some of the names are often, but not always, anglicised. Male names usually end in -ης and -ος, along with -α and -ων...
. In modern Greek usage, the name is usually transliterated
Glafkos.
- Glaucus
Glaucus is a Greek name. In modern Greek usage, the name is usually transliterated Glafkos.*Glaucus, a sea-god in Greek mythology*Glaucus , mythical Lycian captain in the Trojan War...
, a sea-god in Greek mythology
- Glaucus (soldier)
Glaucus was a son of Hippolochus and a grandson of Bellerophon. He was a captain in the Lycian army under the command of his close friend and cousin Sarpedon. The Lycians in the Trojan War were allies of Troy...
, mythical Lycian captain in the Trojan War
- Glaucus (son of Sisyphus), a mythical Corinthian king
- Glaucus (son of Minos)
Glaucus was a son of Minos and Pasiphaë. One day, Glaucus was playing with a ball or mouse and suddenly disappeared...
, a mythical prince
- Glaucus of Chios
According to Herodotus, Alyattes, the Lydian King and father of Croesus, gave a salver of welded iron to the Oracle of Delphi. This salver, "the most remarkable of all the offerings at Delphi," was the work of Glaucus of Chios, "the inventor of the art of welding."...
, the mythical inventor of welding in Greek mythology
- Glaucus (owl), the owl of Athena
- Glafkos (river), a river in Patras, Greece
- Glaucus (disciple), the 2nd century teacher of Basilides
- Apollonius Glaucus
Apollonius Glaucus was a physician and writer who must have lived during or before the 2nd century CE, as his work On Internal Diseases is quoted by Caelius Aurelianus. Nothing more is known of his life. He wrote, for instance, on the significance of the types of excreted worms.-Name:The name...
, a 2nd century Roman physician
- Glafkos Klerides
Glafkos Ioannou Clerides is a Greek-Cypriot politician and former President of the Republic of Cyprus.Clerides was the eldest son of the lawyer and statesman Yiannis Clerides....
, former President of Cyprus
- Glaucus atlanticus
Glaucus atlanticus is a species of medium-sized blue sea slug, a pelagic aeolid nudibranch, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Glaucidae...
, a nudibranch of the family Glaucidae
- 1870 Glaukos
1870 Glaukos is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on March 24, 1971 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
, Trojan asteroid
- Greek submarine Glafkos (Υ-6), a Protefs class submarine of the Hellenic Navy
- Glaukos Linea, a linea on Europa