Editing Polyidus (son of Coeranus) (section)

== Mythology ==
===Glaucus===
The best known myth concerning Polyidus is the one that deals with him saving the life of [[Glaucus (son of Minos)|Glaucus]], which runs as follows.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], 3.3.1–2; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' 136</ref> One day, [[Glaucus (son of Minos)|Glaucus]], son of King [[Minos]] and Queen [[Pasiphaë]] of [[Crete]], was playing with a [[mouse]] and suddenly disappeared. The [[Kuretes]] told Minos: "A marvelous creature has been born amongst you: whoever finds the true likeness for this creature will also find the child."

They interpreted this to refer to a newborn calf in Minos' herd. Three times a day, the calf changed color from white to red to black. Polyidus ( or [[Asclepius]], god of medicine) observed the similarity to the ripening of the fruit of the [[mulberry]], and Minos sent him to find Glaucus.

Searching for the boy, Polyidus saw an [[owl]] driving [[bee]]s away from a wine-cellar in Minos' palace. Inside the wine-cellar was a cask of honey, with Glaucus dead inside. Minos demanded Glaucus be brought back to life and ordered Polyidus to be entombed with the body. When a [[snake]] appeared nearby, Polyidus killed it immediately. Another snake came for the first, and after seeing its mate dead, the second serpent left and returned with an [[herb]] which then brought the first snake back to life. With the herb Polyidus resurrected the child.

Minos refused to let Polyidus leave Crete until he taught Glaucus the art of [[divination]]. Polyidus did so, but then, at the last second before leaving to Argos, he asked Glaucus to spit in his mouth. Glaucus did so and forgot everything he had been taught.

The story of Polyidus and Glaucus was the subject of a lost play of [[Euripides]], his ''Bellerophon'', and of one by [[Aeschylus]], and Sophocles' lost ''The Mantises''. Previously unknown fragments of Euripedes' ''Polyidus'' were found in 2022 and publicized in 2024.<ref name="m362">{{cite web | title=Uncovered Euripides fragments are 'kind of a big deal' | website=Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine | date=1 August 2024 | url=https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2024/08/01/uncovered-euripides-fragments-are-kind-big-deal | access-date=10 August 2024}}</ref>

===Other stories===
It is related that Polyidus advised [[Bellerophon]] as to how to find and tame [[Pegasus]], in order to kill the [[Chimera (creature)|Chimera]].<ref>Scholia ad [[Pindar]], ''Olympian Ode'' 13.75</ref>

Polyidus was said to have come to [[Megara]] to purify [[Alcathous, son of Pelops]], for the accidental murder of the latter's son Callipolis. He also built the sanctuary of [[Dionysus#Epithets|Dionysus Patroos]] (Paternal), and dedicated a wooden image that in Pausanias' day was covered up except the face, which alone was exposed. The tomb of his two daughters was shown at Megara.<ref name="Pausanias" />

Polyidus also appears in one of the stories collected in [[Pseudo-Plutarch]]'s ''On Rivers'': he explains to [[Lysippe]], mother of [[Teuthras]], the source of her son's insanity.<ref>[[Pseudo-Plutarch]], ''De fluviis'' 21.4</ref>