Page 60 - Sarpedon’dan Keykubad’a Bir Zamanlar Antalya

Supreme Commander Sarpedon

“I came to your aid from far away,
I came from eddying waters of the Xanthos, from distant
Lycia ” (II. V, 472).
The valiant Bellerophon will die, but the heroism of his lineage
will continue for many years in Lycia. His children Hippolochus
and Laomedia gave him two grandsons. Sarpedon and Glaukos
are the names of these heroes who will gain fame in the future
both for themselves and for their Lycian lineage by fighting in the
Trojan War. Growing up together, the two cousins spend their
childhood in the fertile Xanthos valley fed by the swirling Xanthos
river. This is the Eşen Stream and Valley that separates Antalya
and Muğla today.
However, over the years, Sarpedon begins to show that he is
different from his cousin Glaukos and other peers in both men-
tal and physical strength. Because Sarpedon besides being the
son of Laomedia, a descendant of the hero Bellerofontes, he is
also the son of Zeus, the god of gods. The valiant young man,
bestowed with power and wisdom by the chief god, becomes the
sole ruler of Lycia, leaving behind Glaukos, the heir to the throne.
However, the valiant Glaukos will never let go of his cousin. Even
in the Trojan War, where Sarpedon will immortalize both himself
and his Lycian lineage with his achievements, he always stands
behind the commander-in-chief. until death.
One day, when the young prince of Troy, Paris, kidnaps Hel-
en, a great fight begins between the two opposite shores of the
Aegean. However, this fight, which turned into a homeland strug-
gle in time, almost turned into a Greek-Anatolian war. Thereup-
on, Hector called for help from all the Anatolian peoples. All the
peoples in the Anatolian lands send their armies to Çanakkale to
help the Trojans.
One of the places where the call for help reaches first is Xan-
thos, the valley of the brave. Because Hector knows that the he-
roic descendants of Bellerophon live there.
Sarpedon realizes that the situation is more of a homeland
struggle than a war between two cities. So much so that his val-

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