Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Sarpedon.
The gallery
Hypnos and Thanatos Carry Sarpedon (Euphronios Krater)
Euphronios, c. 515 BC
Euphronios' calyx-krater — Sleep and Death lifting Zeus' Lycian son from the Trojan plain under Hermes' eye — remains the definitive image of Sarpedon's fall.
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Iliad
Homer
Books XII and XVI — the rain of blood, Patroclus' spear, and Zeus deciding not to save his own son.
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Euphronios Krater
The Sarpedon krater — once Met, now Cerveteri — made the Lycian hero modern archaeology's most famous corpse.
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Sarpedon
Zeus' mortal son who dies at Troy — the Iliad's lesson that even a god's child is not exempt from fate.