[28\2: It cannot be doubted (in spite of Meier, _Annali dell' Inst. Arch._, 1883, p. 217 ff.) that the story given in ~P~ of Sarpedon's death and the carrying away of his body, even if it does not belong to the oldest part of the poem (which I cannot regard as certain), is nevertheless earlier than the _Aithiopis_ and was the model for its account of Memnon's death (cf. also Christ, _Chron. altgr. Epos._, p. 25). But why do Thanatos and Hypnos carry away the body of Sarpedon (instead of the usual ~thu/ella, a/ella, Ha/rpuia~, or the winds, Q.S. ii, 550, in the case of Memnon)? Where these two are found on Attic lekythoi as bearers of the corpse (Robert, _Thanatos_, 19) they were perhaps intended in some consolatory sense as in the grave inscriptions ~hu/pnos e/chei se, ma/kar . . . kai\ ne/kus ouk ege/nou~. The Homeric poet, however, can hardly have meant anything of the sort, but merely invents the indispensable second bearer to assist Thanatos--an effective touch but not one that rested on any religious grounds. Hypnos as brother of Thanatos is also found in the ~Dio\s apa/tê~, ~X~ 231.] [29\2: ~ek tê=s pura=s hê The/tis anarpa/sasa to\n pai=da eis tê\n Leukê\n nê=son diakomi/zei~, Procl., _Chrest._, p. 34, Kink. Then he continues, ~hoi de\ Achaioi\ to\n _ta/phon_ chô/santes agô=na tithe/asin~. Thus a grave-mound is set up though the body of Achilles has been translated: evidently a concession to the older narrative (~ô~ 80-4), which knew nothing of the translation of the body but gives prominence to the grave-mound. Besides which, the tumulus of Achilles--a landmark on the seashore of the Troad--required explanation, and the poet accordingly speaks of the erection of a cenotaph. It was not considered a contradiction to erect cenotaphs, not only to those whose bodies were irrecoverable (see above, Ch. I, n. 88), but also to Heroes whose bodies had been translated. Thus Herakles, after he has been struck by lightning and snatched up into the sky, has a ~chô=ma~ made for him, though no bones were found upon the ~pura/~, D.S. 4, 38, 5; 39, 1. (The tumuli found in the Troad were not, indeed, originally empty as Schliemann, _Troy, etc._, pp. 252, 263, supposed; they were not cenotaphs but merely grave-mounds that had once been filled and belong to a type frequently met with in Phrygia; see Schuchhardt, _Schliemann's Excav._ [E.T.], p. 84 ff. Kretschmer, _Einl. Ges. gr. Spr._, 1896, p. 176.)]