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He was a son of Bellerephon, brother of Isander and Laodameia (Il. 6.197) and father of Glaucus (Il. 6.119, 17.140).
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He was a son of Bellerephon, brother of Hippolochus and Laodameia, and was slain by Ares in a battle against the Solymi (Il. 6.197 & 203).
Father of Perimus (Il. 16.695).
She was the daughter of Bellerephon, sister of Isander and Hippolochus, and mother of Sarpedon by Zeus. She was slain by Artemis in wrath (Il. 6.195 etc.).
Laodamia, (Laodameia). A daughter of Bellerophon by Achemone, the daughter of king Iobates. She had a son by Zeus called Sarpedon.
Laodameia, a daughter of Bellerophontes, became by Zeus the mother of Sarpedon, and was killed by Artemis while she was engaged in weaving. (Hom. Il. vi. 197-205.)
King of Lycia and father of Pandarus (Il. 2.826, 4.88).
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She was a monster of divine origin, with a body in the shape of a lion in the front part, a serpent in the rear and a goat in the middle. Chimaera also breathed forth blazing fire; Bellerephon slew her (Od. 6.179 etc., 16.328).
According to Hesiod, she was the daughter of Typhoeus and Echidna (Hes. Theog. 321).
Chimaera (Chimaira). A fire-breathing monster of Lycia, destroyed by Bellerophon. According to Homer the Chimaera was of divine origin. In front it was a lion, behind it was a serpent, and in the middle a goat, and was brought up by King Amisodarus as a plague for men. Hesiod calls her the daughter of Typhon and Echidna, and by Orthos the mother of the Sphinx and the Nemean lion. He describes her as large, swift-footed, strong, with the heads of a lion, a goat, and a serpent. In numerous works of art, as in statues, and the coins of Corinth, Sicyon, and other cities, the Chimaera is generally represented as a lion, with a goat's head in the middle of its back, and tail ending in a snake's head. The bronze Chimaera of Arretium, now in Florence, is a very celebrated work of art. Even in antiquity the Chimaera was regarded as a symbol of the volcanic character of the Lycian soil.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Chimaera (Chimaira), a fire-breathing monster, which, according to the Homeric poems, was of divine origin. She was brought up by Amisodarus, king of Caria, and afterwards made great havoc in all the country around and among men. The fore part of her body was that of a lion, and the hind part that of a dragon, while the middle was that of a goat (Hom. Il. vi. 180, xvi. 328; comp. Ov. Met. ix. 646). According to Hesiod (Theog. 319, &c.), she was a daughter of Typhaon and Echidna, and had three heads, one of each of the three animals before mentioned, whence she is called trikephalos or trisomatos (Eustath. ad Hom.; Eurip. Ion, 203, &c.; Apollod. i. 9.3, ii. 3.1). She was killed by Bellerophon, and Virgil (Aen. vi. 288) places her together with other monsters at the entrance of Orcus. The origin of the notion of this fire-breathing monster must probably be sought for in the volcano of the name of Chimaera near Phaselis, in Lycia (Plin. H. N. ii. 106, v. 27; Mela. i. 15), or in the volcanic valley near the Cragus (Strab. xiv.), which is described as the scene of the events connected with the Chimaera. In the works of art recently discovered in Lycia, we find several representations of the Chimaera in the simple form of a species of lion still occurring in that country.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
A warlike people of Lycia (Il. 6.184, Od. 5.283).
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A country in Asia Minor between Caria and Pamphylia, ally of the Trojans (Il. 2.877, 5.173 etc.).
Alastor. A Lycian, who was a companion of Sarpedon, and slain by (Odysseus. (Hom. Il. v. 677 ; Ov. Met. xiii. 257.) Another Alastor is mentioned in Hom. Il. viii. 333, xiii. 422.
Alastorides, a patronymic from Alastor, and given by Homer (Il. xx. 463) to Tros, who was probably a son of the Lycian Alastor mentioned above.
A Lycian, who was slain by Odysseus (Il. 5.678).
A Lycian, who was slain by Odysseus (Il. 5.678).
A Lycian (Il. 17.217).
He was slain by Patroclus (Il. 16.416).
The charioteer of Sarpedon, who was slain by Patroclus (Il. 16.463).
A Lycian, who was slain by Odysseus (Il. 5.677).
He was a son of Amisodarus, brother of Atymnius and was slain by Thrasymedes (Il. 16.319 etc.).
A Lycian (Il. 17.216).
A Lycian, who was slain by Odysseus (Il. 5.678).
A Lycian, son of Argeas, who was slain by Patroclus (Il. 16.417).
He was the son of Zeus and Laodameia (Il. 6.198), the leader of the Lycians and ally of the Trojans (Il. 2.876), who was slain by Patroclus (Il. 16.480). Pausanias mentions that Sarpedon was sent away from Crete by Minos and took refuge in Lycia (Paus. 7,3,7).
At the command of Zeus, Apollo cleansed the blood and the dust from the body of the dead Sarpedon and anointed it with ambrosia (Il. 16.667).
Sarpedon. Son of Zeus and Laodamia, or, according to others, of Evander and Deidamia, and a brother of Clarus and Themon. He was a Lycian prince, and a grandson of the preceding. In the Trojan War he was an ally of the Trojans, and distinguished himself by his valour, but was slain by Patroclus. Apollo, by the command of Zeus, cleansed Sarpedon's body from blood and dust, covered it with ambrosia, and gave it to Sleep and Death to carry into Lycia, there to be honourably buried.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Deidameia, a daughter of Bellerophontes and wife of Evander, by whom she became the mother of Sarpedon. (Diod. v. 79.) Homer (Il. vi. 197) calls her Laodameia.
A Lycian leader (Il. 2.876, 6.119), who was the son of Hippolochus and grandson of Bellerephon (Il. 7.13).
Glaucus. A son of Hippolochus, and grandson of Bellerophontes. He was a Lycian prince, and led his hosts from Xanthus to the assistance of Priam in the war with the Greeks. (Hom. II.ii. 875, vi. 206; Herod. i. 147.) He was one of the most eminent heroes on the side of the Trojans, and connected with Diomedes by ties of hospitality, which shows a very early intercourse between the Greeks and Lycians. (Hom. Il. vii. 13, xii. 387, xiv. 426, xvi. 492, &c., xvii. 140, &c.) He was slain by Ajax, but his body was carried back to Lycia. (Quint. Smyrn. Paralip. iii. 236, iv. 1, &c.)
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