| Hypnos and Thanatos bearing Sarpedon | il299flax: "Up now, dear Phoebus, go cleanse from Sarpedon the dark blood, when you have taken him forth from out the range of darts, and thereafter bear him far away, and bathe him in the streams of the river, and anoint him with ambrosia, and clothe him about with immortal raiment, and give him to swift conveyers to bear with them, even to the twin brethren, Sleep and Death, who shall set him speedily in the rich land of wide Lycia. There shall his brethren and his kinsfolk give him burial with mound and pillar; for this is the due of the dead." (Hom.Il.16.670). John Flaxman (1755 – 1826). |
