Page 71 - Sarpedon’dan Keykubad’a Bir Zamanlar Antalya

“Too bad for my favorite Sarpedon among people.
It is his destiny to die at the hand of Patroclus,
the son of Menotios.
Inside of me, my heart goes this way and that.
Taking him back from the tearful war,
Should I kidnap him and leave him in the fertile soil of Lycia?
Or should I let him die at the hands of the son of Menotios?”
(II. XVI, 4 3 3 vd.)
However, Hera, with whom he discusses this issue, prevents
this situation by opposing Zeus. Because; she thinks that if Zeus
saves his son from his fate, other gods will have the right to do
the same.
…“The most terrible son of the gods, Kronos
What kind of words are these?
A mortal whose fate has always been determined
You want to save the mortal from the creeping death?
As you wish! But we other gods
we will not approve you
I have one more thing to tell you,
put your mind to it:
You alive Sarpedon
If you take your hometown,
Beware, another god has his beloved son
From the war that killed souls
may wish to save”…
Therefore, Zeus allows Sarpedon to die in his fight with Patro-
clus. So much so that Zeus rained bloody raindrops on the heads
of the Trojan horses to show the sadness of his son’s approach-
ing death. However, before this event, Sarpedon kills Achilles’
only mortal horse. In the struggle between the two great heroic
commanders, Patroclus struck Sarpedon with a deadly spear
blow and knocked the heroic commander down.
When he pulls his spear from his body while on the ground,
Sarpedon’s spirit also leaves his body with the spear. As the
great hero dies, he calls out to his comrade Glaukos at his last
breath, asking him to save his dead body and armor. However,

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