Events mentioned in: Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 10, Night-time Foray

  1. Diomedes kills Rhesus
  2. Odysseus and Diomedes sneak into the Trojan camp
  3. Agamemnon seeks Nestor’s advice on how to save the Achaeans
  4. Menelaus, unable to sleep, seeks out his brother, Agamemnon
  5. Agamemnon instructs Menelaus to call Ajax, Idomeneus, and every man along the way
  6. Agamemnon seeks out Nestor and asks him for guidance
  7. Nestor goes out among the Achaean ships and wakes Odysseus and Diomedes
  8. Diomedes wakes Ajax and Meges
  9. Diomedes, Meriones, Thrasymedes, and the rest of the chiefs of the Achaeans come together in council
  10. Nestor asks the chiefs of the Achaeans for a volunteer to spy on the Trojans
  11. Diomedes volunteers to spy on the Trojans
  12. The two Ajaxes, Meriones, Thrasymedes, Menelaus, and Odysseus volunteer to accompany Diomedes on his mission to spy on the Trojan host
  13. Diomedes chooses Odysseus to accompany him in spying on the Trojan host
  14. Thrasymedes gives Diomedes a sword and shield
  15. Meriones gives Odysseus a bow, quiver, and his own leather helmet
  16. Autolycus steals a leather helmet from Amyntor
  17. Autolycus gives Amyntor’s stolen helmet to Amphidamas
  18. Amphidamas gives his helmet to Molos as a token of friendship
  19. Molos gives his helmet to his son, Meriones
  20. Athena sends a heron to Diomedes and Odysseus as a sign of her favour
  21. Odysseus and Diomedes pray to Athena that they will be successful in finding a weakness in the Trojan host
  22. Tydeus goes to Thebes as an envoy of the Achaeans
  23. Tydeus abandons the Achaeans
  24. Tydeus delivers a message of peace to the Cadmeans
  25. Hector calls the princes of the Trojans to council
  26. Hector asks the princes of the Trojans for a volunteer to infiltrate the Achaean camp
  27. Dolon volunteers to determine whether or not the Achaean camp is still guarded
  28. Hector swears an oath that Dolon may have a bronze chariot and the horses of Achilles
  29. Dolon arms himself
  30. Dolon makes his way toward the Achaean camp
  31. Odysseus sees Dolon making for the ships from Troy and tells Diomedes that they must kill him before he returns
  32. Dolon runs from Diomedes and Odysseus
  33. Athena infuses Diomedes with energy so that he may have the glory of striking Dolon first
  34. Diomedes throws a spear at Dolon, but misses on purpose
  35. Dolon begs Diomedes and Odysseus to take him alive for ransom
  36. Odysseus asks Dolon if he is spying for the Trojans
  37. Dolon tells Odysseus that Hector bribed him to determine if the Achaeans intended to flee or not
  38. Odysseus interrogates Dolon
  39. Diomedes beheads Dolon
  40. Odysseus hangs Dolon’s armour and weapons in honour of Athena
  41. Odysseus places Dolon’s armour and weapons on a tamarisk tree
  42. Diomedes slaughters thirteen Thracian warriors
  43. Odysseus frees the horses of Rhesus
  44. Athena warns Diomedes to retreat to the ships
  45. Odysseus and Diomedes return to the ships of the Achaeans with Rhesus’ horses
  46. Apollo wakes Hippocoon, alerting the Trojan camp to the massacre of the Thracians
  47. Diomedes takes the spoils of Hector’s dead guard and gives them to Odysseus
  48. Odysseus tells Nestor how Diomedes killed Rhesus, the Thracian king, twelve of his men, and a Trojan scout
  49. The Achaeans bathe themselves in the sea
  50. The Achaeans anoint themselves with oil
  51. The Achaeans make an offering to Athena
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