Death

Family: Olympian · Role: god · First appears: BOOK XIV

Life events

• Apollo removes Sarpedon’s body, cleanses it, and entrusts it to Death and Sleep for transport to Lycia.(BOOK XVI · 📍 Lycia)
  • With: Apollo Sleep Sarpedon
  • “this done, he committed him to the arms of the two fleet messengers, Death, and Sleep, who presently set him down in the rich land of Lycia.”

BOOK XIV

• siblings with Sleep “There she met Sleep, own brother to Death”

BOOK XVI

• with Sarpedon (interaction) “he committed him to the arms of the two fleet messengers, Death, and Sleep”

Also listed in Olympian — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Iliad. Made with Rho MD.