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Athena gives Diomedes might and courage, and he cuts through the Trojan ranks. He kills several commanders and wounds Aphrodite when she tries to save her son Aeneas. The goddess flees to Olympus, where Zeus teases her.
Aeneas is carried away by Apollo and then by Poseidon. Diomedes, encouraged by Athena, wounds even Ares, the god of war. The book is the Iliad’s most concentrated study of a single warrior’s day of glory and of the gods’ vulnerability to human violence.
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And now to Tydeus' son, Diomedes, Pallas Athene gave might and courage, that he should prove himself pre-eminent amid all the Argives, and win glorious renown. — Homer, Iliad V.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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