Status Updates From Iliad, The

As heavy fighting resumes, the goddess Athena fills Diomedes with raging courage and power. She forbids him from fighting any god except for Aphrodite if he encounters her. Pandarus shoots Diomedes in the shoulder. He kills Pandarus with a spear and shatters Aeneas’ hip with a boulder. When Aphrodite rescues her son Aeneas, Diomedes slashes her wrist. She drops Aeneas and flees back to Mount Olympus.

“A person can get tired of anything-of sleep, of sex, of dancing, of sweet song, far better objects of desire than war. But Trojans are insatiable for battle.” -Menelaus