Sleep and Death Conveying the Body of Sarpedon to Lycia, c1792. By John Flaxman (1755-1826). Sarpedon was in Greek legend, son of Zeus, the king of the gods, and Laodameia, the daughter of Bellerophon. In Homer’s Iliad Sarpedon fought on the side of the Trojans and was slain by the Greek warrior Patroclus. A struggle took place for the possession of his body until Apollo rescued it from the Greeks and handed it over to Hypnos and Thanatos (Sleep and Death) who conveyed it for burial to Lycia. The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer.

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