Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Glaucus.
The gallery
Diomedes and Glaucus Exchanging Armour
Hasselmann Painter, c. 420 BC
Attic red-figure pelike (c. 420 BC, Museo Regionale Archeologico, Gela): Diomedes and the Lycian captain clasp hands and trade armour — gold for bronze — after discovering their grandfathers' guest-friendship (Iliad 6).
In play
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Iliad
Book 6: Glaucus tells Bellerophon's line and will not fight Diomedes — the armour exchange remains epic's most famous mid-battle truce.
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Glaucus of Lycia
Son of Hippolochus, peer of Sarpedon — the Lycian who gave gold for bronze and kept guest-friendship above the war.