My cruel fate…
my Sarpedon, the man I love the most, my own son –
doomed to die at the hands of Menoetius’ son Patroclus.
My heart is torn in two as I try to weigh all this.
Shall I pluck him up, now, while he’s still alive
and set him down in the rich green land of Lycia,
far from the war at Troy and all its tears?
Or beat him down at Patrodus’ hands at last?
– Homer
The Iliad, Book 16, lines 514-521. For the love of his son, the god Zeus considers defying cruel fate in order to save Sarpedon, destined to die at the hands of Patroclus.