Page 74 - Sarpedon’dan Keykubad’a Bir Zamanlar Antalya

Yes, the great hero commander Sarpedon is dead, but; this
death led him to eternal immortality. Because Sarpedon was
martyred by fighting fearlessly for the sake of his homeland. So
much so that after his death, a temple tomb was built in Xanthos
in the name of the hero. And this temple tomb has become the
symbol of the immortalization of the soul of the legendary hero.

Fig. 44: Transport of Sarpedon’s body to Lycia by Hypnos and Thana-
tos under the control of Hermes. 500 BC Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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