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).
Ajax and Glaucus Fight over the Body of Achilles
Inscriptions Painter (Chalcidian), c. 540–530 BC
Drawing after a lost Chalcidian black-figure amphora (formerly Pembroke-Hope, Deepdene; LIMC Achilleus 850): Ajax and the Lycian Glaucus struggle over Achilles' corpse while Paris and Aeneas look on and Athena, aegis snaking, aids the Greek. Homer's Glaucus — Hippolochus' son, Sarpedon's peer — appears here not in the famous armour-exchange of Iliad 6 but in the later fight for the fallen hero, named among the Trojan allies who will not leave Achilles' body uncontested. Colorized reconstruction after A. Rumpf, Chalkidische Vasen (1927), pl. 12.
In play
Iliad
Book 6: Glaucus tells Bellerophon's line and will not fight Diomedes — the armour exchange remains epic's most famous mid-battle truce.
Glaucus of Lycia
Son of Hippolochus, peer of Sarpedon — the Lycian who gave gold for bronze and kept guest-friendship above the war.