"... the battle in all its fury veering back and forth."

"fiery-eyed Athena."

"Thundering Zeus..."

"...man-killing Hector."

"... the dark came swirling down to shroud his eyes."

"... the old horseman shook the lots and one lept from the helmet..."

"...hundreds of fires..."

"...Diomedes lord of the war cry broke forth..."

"Grey-eyed Athena's shrine."

"A flash of his helmet..."

"...clear-eyed Athena..."

"Like a mother bird...to her unfledged young...starvation wages for herself."

"His please were moving the heart in Menelaus."

"And Apollo...and Queen Athena, for all the world like carrion birds...slowly settled atop the broad towering oak sacred to Zeus...relishing those men."

"Let him die a thousand deaths..."

"...the famous runner Achilles..."

"The iron warrior brought his brother round..."

"His...long shadow flew and it struck Ajax' shield..."

Iris' message to Athena & Hera from Zeus

Odysseus' message to Achilles from Agamemnon