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.
"Sarpedon," said he, "councilor of the Lycians, why should you come skulking here you who are a man of peace?
nevertheless, I head my Lycian warriors and stand my ground against any who would fight me though I have nothing here for the Achaeans to plunder, while you look on, without even bidding your men stand firm in defense of their wives.
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.
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.
What is now possessed by the Lycians was in the past Milyan, and the Milyans were then called Solymi.
The Lycians were from Crete in ancient times (for in the past none that lived on Crete were Greek).