Glaucus
Γλαῦκος
(Γλαῦκος).
1. Called by Arrian (Arr. Anab. 7.14) Glaucias (Γλαυκίας), the name of the physician who attended on Hephaestion at the time of his death, B. C. 325, and who is said the to have been either crucified or hanged by Alexander, for his ill success in treating him. (Plut. Alex. 100.72.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.