Glaucus (Lycian)

Glaucus (right) and Diomedes , Attic pelike, around 420 BC Chr.

Glaucus ( ancient Greek Γλαῦκος ) - great-grandson of Glaucus , grandson of Bellerophon , son of Hippolochus - was king of Lycia , which he did in the Trojan War the Priam led to the rescue. Here he was one of the bravest warriors on the Trojan side. His palace was in Melanippion .

Trojan war

In the 10th year of the war, Glaucus came to the aid of the Trojans with his Lycian army. When he faced Diomedes in battle and recognized him, he renewed with him the friendship bond made by their grandfathers, Bellerophon and Oineus , by exchanging his gold armor for Diomedes' iron armor (“Gold for bronze, the value of a hundred cattle for the of nine ").

When the Trojans stormed the Hellenic fortifications, Glaucus and Sarpedon were the first on the parapet. Here, however, he was wounded by Teukros with an arrow in the arm and withdrew. After the death of Sarpedon, he fell into the hands of the Greeks; therefore Glaucus asked Hector to take the body of Patroclus and exchange it for Sarpedon. Glaukos asked Apollo for help, after which his arm bleeding stopped and he was able to take part in the fight. Here he killed Bathykles, the son of Chalcon. In total, Glaukos is said to have killed four opponents, including Iphinous. He himself was killed in the fight for the body of Achilles of Aias .

The exchange of the golden armor for the brazen of Diomedes serves as a symbol of Justinian in the Constitutio Omnem in the year 533 AD, to exchange the old constitutions and commentaries of the legal scholars for the abbreviated, corrective and supplementary Corpus iuris civilis .

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• Library of Apollodorus , 6, 35; 7, 2; 8, 4.
• Dares Phrygius , Acta diurna belli Troiani , 18.
• Dictys cretensis , Ephemeris belli Troiani , 2, 35; 2, 38; 4, 7.
• Herodotus , Histories , 1, 147.
• Homer , Iliad , 2, 876; 6, 119-236; 7, 13; 12, 102; 12, 309-329; 12, 378; 14, 426; 16, 492-597; 17, 140-169; 17, 209.
• Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae , 112; 115.
• Quintus de Smyrna , Post Homer , 3, 247; 4, 1; 8, 103; 10, 158; 14, 126

Web links

Commons : Glaukos  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Kerényi, The Mythology of the Greeks , Vol. II, p. 275. ISBN 3-423-01346-X