![]() ![]() However, in his blind arrogance and blood-lust, he strikes and injures Aphrodite. Heroes of iliad by Tischbeinĭuring the new fight, the Greek hero Diomedes, strengthened by Athena, obliterates the Trojans before him. ![]() After the fight is over, the goddess Athena who favors the Greeks provokes the Trojans to break the truce, and another battle begins. Despite the goddess Aphrodite’s intervention on behalf of the over-matched Paris, Menelaus wins. During a brief truce in the hostilities between the Trojan and Greek troops, Paris and Menelaus meet in single combat over Helen, while she and old King Priam of Troy watch from the city walls. Testing the loyalty of the remaining Greeks, Agamemnon pretends to order them to abandon the war, but Odysseus encourages the Greeks to pursue the fight. Feeling dishonoured, Achilles wrathfully withdraws both himself and his Myrmidon warriors from the Trojan War. But, when Agamemnon eventually reluctantly agrees to give her back, he takes in her stead Briseis, Achilles‘s own war-prize concubine. ![]()
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