The Lycian prince and son of Zeus who fought on Troy’s side was Sarpedon.
Sarpedon led a Lycian contingent as one of Troy’s strongest allies. In Homer’s Iliad, he is the son of Zeus and Laodamia, daughter of the Lycian hero Bellerophon. Later classical traditions instead make him the son of Zeus and Europa and brother of Minos and Rhadamanthus, creating a well-known genealogical discrepancy.
The Iliad portrays Sarpedon as both a formidable warrior and a thoughtful leader. He rebukes Hector for leaving too much of Troy’s fighting to its allies, while acknowledging that the Lycians have no personal quarrel with the Greeks. Sarpedon eventually fights Patroclus and is mortally wounded.
Zeus considers saving his son but accepts that fate must prevail. After Sarpedon dies, Apollo preserves and cleans his body, then Sleep and Death carry it to Lycia for burial. Glaucus, his companion and kinsman, fights fiercely over the corpse.