According to scholia to Iliad book 12, citing Hesiod and Bacchylides, Europa bore Zeus three sons on Crete, Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthus. However, in the standard classical tradition Sarpedon was instead the Cretan son of Zeus and Europa, and the brother of Minos. While Sarpedon, a Trojan ally from Lycia, was the son of Zeus and Laodamia, the daughter of Bellerophon and the Lycian princess Philonoe, with no apparent connection to Crete. In Homer's Iliad, Zeus had two sons by Europa, Minos and Rhadamanthus. There were three separate traditions concerning the genealogy of Sarpedon the brother of Minos, and Sarpedon the Trojan War hero. There is evidence to suggest that Sarpedon was the subject of pre-Homeric non-Greek worship. According to Tertullian there was a shrine and oracle of Sarpedon in the Troad, although Tertuliian might have been confusing this for the oracle in Cilicia. There was also a temple and oracle of Apollo Sarpedonios and Artemis Sarpedonia at Seleuceia in Cilicia. There was a temple of Sarpedon in Xanthos, in Lycia, perhaps associated with a supposed burial site there. Although in the Iliad, he was the son of Zeus and Laodamia, the daughter of Bellerophon, in the later standard tradition, he was the son of Zeus and Europa, and the brother of Minos and Rhadamanthus, while in other accounts the Sarpedon who fought at Troy was the grandson of the Sarpedon who was the brother of Minos.

In Greek mythology, Sarpedon ( / s ɑːr ˈ p iː d ən/ or / s ɑːr ˈ p iː d ɒ n/ Ancient Greek: Σαρπηδών) was a son of Zeus, who fought on the side of Troy in the Trojan War.

Hypnos and Thanatos carrying the body of Sarpedon from the battlefield of Troy detail from an Attic white-ground lekythos, ca.

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