Book 4. At a council of the gods on Mount Olympos, Zeus considers bringing the Trojan War to an end after nine years and sparing the city of Troy. Hera angrily objects, and Zeus sends Athena to break the truce.
Athena persuades Pandaros, a Trojan nobleman, to shoot an arrow at Menelaos. Menelaos is wounded, the truce is broken and, as Agamemnon rallies the troops, fighting breaks out. Book 5. With fighting resumed, both armies battle bravely but the outstanding warrior is the Achaean hero, Diomedes, who Athena has inspired with exceptional courage and skill, as well as the ability to distinguish gods from men. However, he must not engage any of the gods with the exception of Aphrodite.
Diomedes kills Pandaros and is about to kill Aeneas when Aphrodite intervenes to save her son. When he wounds Aphrodite, Ares comes to help the Trojans. The goddesses, Hera and Athena, join in on the Achaean side. Book 6. Hektor returns to Troy to ask the Trojan women to make a sacrifice to Athena to win her pity. He discovers Paris at home with Helen and rebukes his brother for abandoning the battlefield. Hektor takes the opportunity to visit his own home and in a moving scene, says an emotional good-bye to his wife, Andromache, and their baby, Astyanax, before returning to battle.
Book 7. Back on the battlefield, Hektor proposes a duel with one of the Achaeans. However, none of the Achaeans is brave enough to accept the Trojan heroes challenge. Nestor chides the warriors until nine of the Achaean champions volunteer to fight Hektor. Finally, Telamonian Ajax is chosen by lot and the warriors engage in a ferocious fight, but the duel ends in a draw as night falls. Both sides agree to a truce to bury the dead, and the Achaeans build a wall and a trench to defend their ships and fortify their camp.
Book 8. The battle resumes. At a council on Olympus, Zeus tells the gods that he is planning on bringing the war to an end and orders them not to interfere on either side. Book 9. The Achaean leaders hold an assembly. Agamemnon, on the verge of tears, proposes to go home, but Diomedes and Nestor dissuade him, for it is fated that Troy will eventually fall. Agamemnon admits his mistake at having insulted Achilles and Nestor convinces him to return Briseis and offer Achilles splendid gifts in reconciliation.
Achilles, putting his injured pride above all else, rejects their appeals. Book On the way, they capture Dolon, a Trojan nobleman sent by Hektor to spy on the Achaeans. After extracting advantageous information from Dolon, they kill him. They then sneak into the Trojan camp, brutally murder Rhesos, a Trojan ally, and twelve of his warriors, and lead off their magnificent horses as spoils.
Battle resumes the next morning and several prominent Achaean warriors are wounded and must leave the fighting. Achilles watches the defeat and, troubled by the turn of events, sends Patroklos, his comrade-in-arms, to find out about the casualties, since his own wounded pride will not allow him to openly show an interest in the fate of the Achaeans. Books The battle is bloody. Agamemnon, Diomedes and Odysseus are all wounded and the Achaeans are forced to take refuge behind their wall. This intervention reinvigorates the Trojan line and overturns a stalemate that has lasted for nine years.
Divine Intervention 6: Aphrodite rescues Paris from an almost certain death and returns him the side of his lover, Helen. This action not only enrages the Greek captains but it also effectively renders the Trojans as 'oath-breakers'. By Greek terms a violation of a truce or agreement sworn to the Gods should result in death or some sort of retribution. Priam, the King of Troy, swears on the behalf of his sons.
By not fulfilling their end of the agreement and depriving Menelaus, the Trojans seal their own demise. Divine Intervention 7: Athena, ordered by Zeus, prompts Pandarus to shoot at Menelaus, restarting the battle.
Once again, even though the tide of battle favors the Trojans, they are forced by divine powers to break a truce that they might not otherwise break. This intervention not only reinstates the battle, but it also further seals the demise of the Trojan city.
Divine Intervention 8: Athena inspires Diomedes with the strength and the daring he needs to sustain his rampage. Athena's aid fills Diomedes with rage and produces carnage.
This rampage directs the course of the battle for this entire book as Diomedes leads the Greek offensive and Trojan captains attempt to stand up to him. Divine Intervention 9: Aphrodite saves her son Aeneas from death at the hands of Diomedes. This intervention is more indicative of gods struggling with gods than gods manipulating men. Aeneas is threatened only because Diomedes has been made stronger by the influence of Athena.
Aphrodite rescues her son from danger as she continues to struggling with hostile gods. Divine Intervention Ares inspires Hector to lead the Trojans and defend their line against Diomedes' attack. Once again, in response to the action of Athena, a god aides a Trojan captain. Ares raises Hector's strength and fills him with rage so that he can rally the Trojan warriors and defend against the rampaging Greeks. Divine Intervention Apollo and Athena decide that they want a battle between champions.
Hector is inspired to challenge a Greek warrior. The two opposed deities have tired of the chaos of battle and would rather see one champion die than many. Hector, foremost of the Trojans, is chosen for his talent in war and his stature. The Greeks must be shamed by Nestor before they volunteer to face the Trojan. By drawing lots, Ajax is selected to fight. Divine Intervention Zeus has decreed to the rest of the gods that he should be the only deity to interfere in the war.
In order to turn the battle in the war he wants it, the king of the gods must resort to excessive force. Zeus throws thunder bolts to cause a Greek rout. Nestor loses his grip on his reigns. Zeus continues to throw bolts of lightning as the Greeks are pushed into their camp and the Trojans crowd against their walls. Divine Intervention At Agamemnon's plea, Zeus gives the Greeks a sign that he has not completely forsaken them: a doe dropped by an eagle.
This inspires the Greeks to rally. Zeus takes pity on the Greeks because he has decreed that they must suffer a rout giving them a temporary resurgence.
Divine Intervention Diomedes asks for a sign from Athena favoring his foray into the enemy's camps. Athena sends a heron. Inspired by this sign, Diomedes and Odysseus continue on their night raid, compared to lions as they sneak into the Trojan camp. The venture is successful and the pair return to their own camp with spoils, unscathed. Divine Intervention Apollo rouses a Trojan to defend the raided camp.
In response to Athena's support of the Greek marauders, Apollo wakes a Trojan to limit the damage done by the pair. The gods struggle against each other using the mortals as pawns. Divine Intervention Zeus gives Hector the strength to storm the Trojan walls and break down the doors. With this act, Zeus continues his commitment to a Greek rout allowing the Trojans to breach the walls and threaten the ships themselves.
Hector hefts a giant rock and smashed the gate allowing the Trojan masses to flow into the camp. Divine Intervention The wills of Zeus and Poseidon struggle as Zeus tries to sustain the Trojan storming of the Greek camps and Poseidon tries to repulse it.
The divine brothers ply their abilities on the mortals. Poseidon challenges his bother's authority as he inspires the Greek leaders with the strength to return to battle. As Zeus turns away, the Trojans continue to attack and Poseidon intensifies his involvement.
Divine Intervention Poseidon takes the form of a mortal Greek and encourages Agamemnon to reenter battle. In the form of a Greek veteran, Poseidon gives Agamemnon the confidence he needs to return to battle and raise a significant defense against the Trojans.
The group of wounded captains return to visibility and rally their warriors. Divine Intervention Poseidon reenters the battle and encourages the Greeks, resulting in the wounding of Hector. Because Hera has guaranteed that Zeus will be sleeping, Poseidon is brave enough to take a greater part in the battle. Under his inspiration, Hector receives a head wound and is forced to withdraw from battle.
This loss undermines the Trojan confidence and advances the Greek rally. Poseidon intervenes against his brother and continues to struggle for his own interests. In another scene when Achilles is on the rampage, Hector meets him, accepts that he is destined to die in the war, but still fights him. He throws his spear at Achilles, and would have seriously wounded or even killed Achilles had Athena not intervened and blown hector's spear away.
Athena then helped Achilles charge Hector. Apollo, who loved Hector, then saved him to anger Athena. In the final confrontation, Hector overcomes his fear of death. He is not scared of Achilles, but that he will never see his loved ones and Ilium again. Achilles misses Hector with his spear, but Athena unfairly returns his spear. Hector does not miss Achilles but strikes his shield.
However, he does not have his spear returned, he is only left with his sword, which is no match against a spear. He then charges Achilles like a eagle swoops down upon a hare. Achilles knows his vulnerable spot and targets it. Hector dies a hero. Achilles is left to be bitter and sad. Achilles turns into a monster with no pity or respect for anyone, not even the Greeks.
Hector is the real hero, Achilles is the main character. She collects his spear after he threw and missed hector. Other things too Achilles fought hector out side of the gates of Troy.
Both talked about what would happen if either of them killed the other. Achilles drew first blood by throwing his spear at hector.
Achilles misses hector and hector throws his spear at Achilles and he blocks the spear with his shield. This is what myth tells us Athena goddess of wisdom takes Achilles spear and throws it back to Achilles and hector does not see this. But hector had no reserved spear but thinks his one of his brothers is by his side. Athena posses as one of hectors brothers and tells hector that he will help hector fight Achilles.
Hector is tricked by Athena and then has no choice. Hector charges for Achilles and Achilles does the same. Achilles has a longer weapon and so he thrashes his spear into hectors windpipe.
Hector still has some few moments left and then ask Achilles to give his body back to his loved ones at troy so he may be properly buried. Achilles refuses and hectors last words is the Paris t who was the one who started the entire war will kill Achilles at the gates of troy where hector is being killed now. In all honest opinion I think that Achilles didn't have help from a goddess and that he had a javelin and a spear but hector only had a javelin and did not see Achilles spear.
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