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Hera sees Poseidon helping the Achaeans and decides to distract Zeus. She borrows Aphrodite’s love charm and persuades Sleep to close Zeus’s eyes on Mount Ida.
Poseidon rallies the Achaeans. Aias hits Hector with a boulder, and Hector is carried off the field coughing blood. The Trojans retreat. The book sets divine intrigue beside battlefield accident: the course of the war turns on a deception in bed.
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And the cry of battle was not unmarked of Nestor, albeit at his wine, but he spake winged words to the son of Asclepius: — Homer, Iliad XIV.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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