Classical Mythology

THE TROJAN SAGA AND THE ILIAD 445

ANTENOR
Antenor, brother of Hecuba, was conspicuous among those who did not want
the war, and he advised returning Helen to the Greeks. When the Greeks first
landed, he saved their ambassadors from being treacherously killed by the Tro-
jans. In the last year of the war, he protested the breaking of a truce by the Tro-
jans and still proposed the voluntary return of Helen. The Greeks spared him
at the sack, and he and his wife, Theano, the priestess of Athena, were allowed
to sail away. They reached Italy, where they founded the city of Patavium
(Padua).

GLAUCUS AND SARPEDON

Of the allies of Troy, the most prominent in the Iliad were the Lycians, led by

Glaucus and Sarpedon. When Glaucus and Diomedes were about to fight, they

discovered that they were hereditary guest-friends (i.e., their ancestors had en-

tertained one another and exchanged gifts). They exchanged armor instead of

fighting and parted amicably. Since Glaucus' armor was made of gold and that

The Death of Sarpedon. Athenian red-figure krater by Euphronios, ca. 510 B.C.; height

18 in. The winged gods, Sleep (Hypnos, left) and Death (Thanatos, right), carry the body

from the battlefield under the guidance of Hermes as two Greek warriors look on. The

gods wear armor (note the chain mail of Thanatos), but the corpse of Sarpedon has been

stripped. The vase is one of the masterpieces of Athenian vase-painting. (New York, The

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Gift ofDarins Ogden Mills, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan,

and Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, by exchange, 1972.)