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SARPEDON

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 221 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SARPEDON , in See also:

Greek See also:legend, son of See also:Zeus and Laodameia, Lycian See also:prince and See also:hero of the Trojan See also:war. He fought on the See also:side of the Trojans, and after greatly distinguishing himself by his bravery, was slain by Patroclus. A terrible struggle took See also:place for the See also:possession of his See also:body, until See also:Apollo rescued it from the Greeks, and by the command of Zeus washed and cleansed it, anointed it with See also:ambrosia, and handed it over to See also:Sleep and See also:Death, by whom it was conveyed for See also:burial to See also:Lycia, where a See also:sanctuary (Sarpedoneum) was erected in See also:honour of the fallen hero. See also:Virgil (Aen. i. roo) knows nothing of the removal of the body to Lycia. In later tradition, Sarpedon was the son of Zeus and See also:Europa and the See also:brother of See also:Minos. Having been expelled from See also:Crete by the latter, he and his comrades sailed for See also:Asia, where he finally became See also:king of Lycia. See also:Euripides (Rhesus, 29) confuses the two Sarpedons. See See also:Homer, Iliad, v. 479, xii. 292, xvi. 419-683; See also:Apollodorus iii. 1, 2; See also:Appian, See also:Bell. civ. iv.

78; See also:

Herodotus i. 173., with See also:Rawlinson's notes.

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