·Reported
Glaucus reports that Bellerophon completed his safely convoyed journey to Lycia.
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“Bellerophon therefore went to Lycia, and the gods convoyed him safely.”
Location · Individual
Lycia
Published entity metadata
Read-only identity and editorial metadata.
- Canonical name
- Lycia
- Disambiguator
- None
- Kind
- Location
- Scope
- Individual
- Parent location
- None
- Editorial note
- No editorial note published.
Aliases
0
No aliases recorded.
Present entities
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Present entities
Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.
·Reported
Glaucus reports that the Lycian king kept Bellerophon in Lycia.
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“Then the king knew that he must be the valiant offspring of a god, so he kept him in Lycia”
·Hypothetical
Jove considers hypothetically setting Sarpedon down safely in Lycia.
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“whether to catch him up out of the fight and set him down safe and sound in the fertile land of Lycia”
·Direct
Death and Sleep set Sarpedon down in the rich land of Lycia.
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“the two fleet messengers, Death, and Sleep, who presently set him down in the rich land of Lycia”
Claims
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·Reported
Sarpedon describes Lycia as honouring its princes with precedence, choice food and wine, divine regard, and estates in return for front-line leadership.
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“why in Lycia do we receive especial honour as regards our place at table? Why are the choicest portions served us and our cups kept brimming, and why do men look up to us as though we were gods? Moreover we hold a large estate by the banks of the river Xanthus, fair with orchard lawns and wheat-growing land; it becomes us, therefore, to take our stand at the head of all the Lycians and bear the brunt of the fight, that one may say to another, ‘Our princes in Lycia eat the fat of the land and drink best of wine, but they are fine fellows; they fight well and are ever at the front in battle”