Creon

A mythical king of Corinth, a son of Lycaethus. (Hyginus1 calls him a son of Menoeceus, and thus confounds him with Creon of Thebes.) His daughter, Glauce, married Jason, and Medea, who found herself forsaken, took vengeance by sending Glauce a garment which destroyed her by fire when she put it on.

According to Hyginus2 Medea's present consisted of a crown, and Creon perished with his daughter, who is there called Creusa.3

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References

Notes

  1. Fabulae, 25.
  2. l.c.
  3. Comp. Diodorus Siculus, iv, 54.

Sources

  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 9.28.
  • Scholiast on Euripides' Medea, 20.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.