Hippo

Hippo ( Dr. Greek Ἱππόλοχος ) is a character in ancient Greek mythology .

The son of Bellerophon and Filonoi, daughter of the king of Lycia, Iobat , brother of Isander and Laodamia.

According to Homer commentator Eustathius of Solunsky , he disputed power with his older brother. They decided that the king would be the one who manages to fire an arrow through a golden ring hung on the chest of a child. Since no one agreed to provide his child for this procedure, the dispute resumed, and then Laodamia suggested that the ring be hung on the neck of her son, Sarpedon . Admired by the nobleness of the sister, the brothers abandoned the throne in favor of Sarpedon, whose co-ruler later became the son of Hippolochus Glaucus ^[1] .

In the sixth song of the Iliad, his son Glaucus, converging in a duel with Diomedes , calls his name and family, and reports about Hippolochus that