Events mentioned in: Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 4, The Armies Clash

  1. Pandarus breaks the truce between the Greeks and the Trojans
  2. The Olympian gods watch the conflict in Troy
  3. Hera and Athena plot against the Trojans
  4. Hera and Zeus negotiate the eventual fall of Troy
  5. Zeus asks Athena to ensure that the Trojans break their cease-fire with the Achaeans
  6. Athena flies through the sky like a meteor
  7. Athena disguises herself as Laodocus
  8. Athena persuades Pandarus to shoot at Menelaus
  9. Pandarus prays to Apollo for help shooting Menelaus
  10. Athena deflects Pandarus’ arrow so that Menelaus is only trivially wounded
  11. Agamemnon and Menelaus discuss Menelaus’ arrow wound
  12. Agamemnon sends Talthybius to find Machaon
  13. Talthybius finds Machaon
  14. Machaon applies treats Menelaus’ wound
  15. The Trojans attack the Greeks, breaking their truce
  16. Agamemnon leaves Eurymedon in charge of his chariot
  17. Agamemnon rallies and encourages the Greek troops
  18. Idomeneus and Meriones organize the Cretan troops before battle
  19. Agamemnon encourages Idomeneus before battle
  20. Agamemnon praises the two Ajaxes and their readiness for battle
  21. Nestor prepares the Pylians to fight the Trojans
  22. Agamemnon and Nestor regret that Nestor is too old to fight
  23. Agamemnon criticizes Odysseus, Menestheus, the Athenians, and the Cephallenians for holding back from battle
  24. Odysseus gets Agamemnon to apologize for his criticisms
  25. Agamemnon criticizes Diomedes for not returning to the fight
  26. Sthenelus defends himself and Sthenelus’ from Agamemnon’s criticism
  27. Diomedes is stirred to action in battle by Agamemnon’s criticism
  28. The Danaans march into battle with the Trojans
  29. Various gods influence the Trojan forces as they gather for battle
  30. Eris spreads discord among the Trojans
  31. The Trojans and the Achaeans fight
  32. Antilochus kills Ekhepolos
  33. Elephenor tries to steal Ekhepolos’ corpse and armor
  34. Agenor kills Elephenor
  35. The Trojans and the Achaeans fight over Elephenor’s body
  36. Ajax kills Simoeisios
  37. Leucus tries to steal Simoeisios’ body
  38. Antiphus hurls a spear at Ajax, but instead strikes Leucus as he carries the body of Simoeisios
  39. Odysseus kills Democoon
  40. Apollo commands the Trojans to rally against the Argives
  41. Athena urges the Achaeans forward against the Trojans
  42. Peirous kills Diores
  43. Thoas kills Peirous
  44. Simoesios born by the river Simois as his mother descends from Mount Ida
  45. Democoon tends his father’s horses in Abydos
  46. Peirous comes from Aenus
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