The funeral of Sarpedon

The poem “The Funeral of Sarpedon” is a poem by C.P. Cavafy makes me personally think about some of the events in the Iliad.  One is that the gods will intervene but they never stop someone from dying they just preserve their body or they are the ones who kill them (in the case of Patroclus).  This is odd because in reality they have to power to stop those they love (or those who they have a close connection to) from dying.  In the Iliad Zeus doesn’t do this because if he does it then all of the other gods would do the same and it would be chaos.  Which makes since to me but it still is something that I would think happen, and that at some point the gods made this mistake and decided that they should never do it again.  If this were the case then it is only because the gods have lived so long that they now seem perfect.  The other thought that this poem made me think about is that to our knowledge Sarpedon never had a funeral, we as the reader don’t even know what happens to the body of Sarpedon.  Even though he is a son of Zeus we don’t hear what happens to the body.