Lycians
group · 3 works · 16 mentions · 30 anchored passages
Lycian warriors · the Lycians · Lycian leaders · Milyans · Solymi · Termilae · Xanthians
in the texts
Iliad
Trojan-allied people from beside the river Xanthos led by Sarpedon and Glaukos.
Sarpedon and Glaukos led the Lycians from their distant land, by the eddying waters of the Xanthos.
Athena, therefore, turned him against the main body of the Lycians.
"Sarpedon," said he, "councilor of the Lycians, why should you come skulking here you who are a man of peace?
The Histories
A people of southwestern Asia Minor descended, in Herodotus's account, from Cretan exiles under Sarpedon and later named for the Athenian exile Lycus.
The Lycians were from Crete in ancient times (for in the past none that lived on Crete were Greek).
What is now possessed by the Lycians was in the past Milyan, and the Milyans were then called Solymi.
but after Lycus son of Pandion came from Athens —banished as well by his brother, Aegeus —to join Sarpedon in the land of the Termilae, they came in time to be called Lycians after Lycus.