The objective of the hero Sarpedon, as he declares here at I.12.318 to his fellow warrior Glaukos, is that the two of them must not be akléees ‘without epic glory [kleos]’. The people whom the two of us rule in Lycia, he continues, must recognize such an objective. This way, the tīmē ‘honor’ that the two of us receive in Lycia, I.12.310 (τετιμήμεσθα), which is a sign of our status there as cult heroes, will be matched by the kleos ‘glory’ that the two of us will receive as epic heroes here in the Iliad.