Athena gave Diomedes son of Tydeus strength and daring, lighting fire from his helmet and shield like the autumn star after it has bathed in Ocean. She drove him into the thickest fighting.
Phegeus and Idaeus, sons of Dares priest of Hephaestus, rushed against him from their chariot. Phegeus threw and missed; Diomedes struck him in the chest and hurled him from the horses. Idaeus leapt down and would have died too, but Hephaestus covered him in night to spare his old father total grief. Diomedes sent the horses to the hollow ships.
Athena then took Ares by the hand and led him out of battle, saying they should let Trojans and Achaeans fight while avoiding Zeus’s anger. With Ares gone, the Danaans bent the Trojans back.
The Achaean leaders killed man after man: Agamemnon killed Odius as he fled, Idomeneus killed Phaestus mounting his chariot, Menelaus killed the hunter Scamandrius, Meriones killed Phereclus the shipwright who had built Paris’s ruinous ships, Meges killed Pedaeus, and Eurypylus cut down Hypsenor, priest of Scamander.