Events mentioned in: Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 5, Diomedes Goes to Battle

  1. Athena inspires Diomedes to fight more intensely
  2. Phegeus and Idaios attack Diomedes
  3. Diomedes kills Phegeus
  4. Hephaestus saves Idaios from Diomedes by wrapping him in a cloud of darkness
  5. The Trojans look on the fates of Phegeus and Idaios with fear
  6. Athena asks Ares to leave the field of battle with her
  7. The Danaans drive back the Trojans
  8. Agamemnon kills Odius
  9. Idomeneus kills Phaesus
  10. Menelaus kills Scamandrius
  11. Meriones kills Phereclus
  12. Meges kills Pedaeus
  13. Eurypylus kills Hypsenor
  14. Diomedes subjects the Trojan ranks to a great onslaught
  15. Pandarus wounds Diomedes with an arrow
  16. Diomedes prays to Athena that he may kill Pandarus
  17. Athena answers Diomedes’ prayer and grants him the ability to see the difference between gods and men
  18. Athena tells Diomedes to wound Aphrodite if he sees her on the field of battle
  19. Diomedes kills Astynous
  20. Diomedes kills Abas
  21. Diomedes kills Polyidus
  22. Diomedes kills Xanthus
  23. Diomedes kills Thoon
  24. Diomedes kills Echemmon
  25. Diomedes kills Chromius
  26. Aeneas asks Pandarus to join him in bringing an end to Diomedes’ rampage
  27. Diomedes kills Pandarus
  28. Aeneas is wounded by Diomedes while guarding the corpse of Pandarus
  29. Aphrodite protects the wounded Aeneas by covering him with her robe and bearing him out of the fight
  30. Sthenelus steals the horses of Aeneas and drives them back to the Achaean ranks
  31. Diomedes attacks and wounds Aphrodite
  32. Aphrodite drops Aeneas, but Apollo catches and obscures him in a cloud of darkness
  33. Aphrodite seeks help from Ares to return her to Mount Olympus to nurse her wounds
  34. Aphrodite tells Dione that Diomedes attacked her and shows her the wound
  35. Dione reassures Aphrodite and heals her wound
  36. Hera and Athena lie to Zeus about the cause of Aphrodite’s injury
  37. Zeus commands Aphrodite to stay out of warfare and occupy herself with her matrimonial duties
  38. Diomedes attacks Aeneas three times, and three times Apollo defends him
  39. Leto and Artemis heal Aeneas in the sanctuary of Apollo
  40. Apollo creates a wraith in the likeness of Aeneas
  41. Apollo asks Ares to draw Diomedes out of the battle
  42. Ares disguises himself as Acamas
  43. Ares goes out amongst the Trojans to raise their morale
  44. Sarpedon reproaches Hector for failing to lead his people
  45. Hector attempts to rally the Trojans against the Achaeans
  46. Ares protects the Trojans by covering them in a veil of darkness
  47. Ares inspires courage in the Trojan ranks
  48. Apollo returns Aeneas to his Trojan comrades
  49. Agamemnon kills Deicoon
  50. Aeneas kills Crethon and Orsilochus
  51. Menelaus and Antilochus dissuade Aeneas from pressing his attack
  52. Menelaus and Antilochus kill Pylamenes and Mydon
  53. Hector, Ares, and Enyo lead the Trojans in pursuit of Menelaus and Antilochus
  54. Hector kills Menesthes and Anchialos
  55. Ajax kills Amphios
  56. Tlepolemus wounds Sarpedon in the thigh with a spear
  57. Sarpedon kills Tlepolemus
  58. Odysseus kills Coeranus, Alastor, Chromius, Alcandrus, Halius, Noemon, and Prytanis
  59. Sarpedon dies, but is revived by the north wind
  60. Ares and Hector kill Teuthras, Orestes, Trechus, Oinomaos, Helenus, and Oresbios
  61. Hera and Athena gain Zeus’ permission to enter the battle
  62. Athena arms herself for battle in her tasselled aegis, wreathed with Ioke, Eris, Alke, and Phobus
  63. Hera raises the morale of the Argives with a rallying cry
  64. Athena taunts Diomedes for nursing his wound instead of fighting and tells him to attack Ares
  65. Athena joins Diomedes in his chariot
  66. Athena disguises herself with the helmet of Hades
  67. Diomedes attacks and wounds Ares
  68. The Trojans and Achaeans panic when they hear the roar of Ares
  69. Ares appeals to Zeus to reprimand Athena for encouraging Diomedes to attack the gods
  70. Zeus angrily reproaches Ares for his stubborn and mischevious nature
  71. Zeus asks Paieon to heal Ares’ wound
  72. Hera and Athena return to Mount Olympus
  73. Phaestus comes from Tarne
  74. Diomedes Kills Hypeiron
  75. Menelaus and Antilokhos recover the bodies of Crethon and Orsilochus from Aeneas
  76. Amphios comes from Paesus
  77. The Achaeans recover Tlepolemus’s body
  78. Are strips the body of Periphas
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