The eighth book of the Iliad tells of the truce imposed by Zeus on the gods of Olympus. In fact, the father of the gods, in a long debate held on Olympus with Hera and Athena, forbids the gods to intervene in the battle and grants his favor to the Trojans, leaving his daughter and wife enraged.
Then he thundered loudly from Ida and sent the glow of his lightning on the Achaeans. Seeing this, all the great Achaean warriors, including the two Ajax, Agamemnon, Idomeneus and Odysseus, fled.
Nestor could not escape because one of his horses was wounded by an arrow shot by Paris. He could die if Diomedes hadn’t intervened. In this painting by the Dutch painter Louis Moritz, from around 1810, the Achaean hero seems to challenge Zeus himself. Oil on canvas, Joan Wijermars Catalog.
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