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Zeus gathers the gods and threatens anyone who interferes. He goes to Mount Ida and weighs the fates of the Achaeans and Trojans in his golden scales; the Achaean side sinks toward the earth.
Hector leads the Trojan advance, and the Achaeans fall back. Hera and Athena try to ride down to help and are turned back by Iris. Zeus predicts that nothing will change until Achilles returns because of Patroclus’ death. Night falls, and the Trojans camp outside the walls.
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Now Dawn the saffron-robed was spreading over the face of all the earth, and Zeus that hurleth the thunderbolt made a gathering of the gods upon the topmost peak of many-ridged Olympus, and himself addressed their gathering; and all the gods gave ear: [5] — Homer, Iliad VIII.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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