Olympus or Olympos (Ancient Greek: Ὄλυμπος, Ólympos; Latin: Olympus) was a city in ancient Lycia.It was situated in a river valley near the coast. Its ruins are located south of the modern town Çıralı in the Kumluca district of Antalya Province, southwestern Turkey.Together with the sites of the ancient cities Phaselis and Idyros it is part of the Olympos Beydaglari National Park.

Sarpedon (/ s ɑːr ˈ p iː d ən,-ˈ p iː d ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Σαρπηδών) is the name of several figures in Greek mythology. Sarpedon, a son of Zeus, who fought on the side of Troy in the Trojan War.Although in the Iliad, he was the son of Zeus and Laodamia, the daughter of Bellerophon, in the later standard tradition, he was the son of Zeus and Europa, and the brother of Minos ...

En 43 de notre ère, la Lycie est incorporée à l'Empire romain par l'empereur Claude (41-54) et réunie à la province romaine de Pamphylie. Sous la domination romaine, la région achève de s'helléniser, et se christianise au IV e siècle (la légende de saint Nicolas de Myre est à l'origine du mythe du « père Noël », ce qui, par extrapolation, permet aux agents de tourisme opérant ...