The Iliad by Homer Book 4 Page 1

A quarrel in Olympus — Minerva goes down and persuades Fandarus to violate the oaths by wounding Menelaus with an arrow — Agamemnon makes a speech and sends for Machaon — He then goes about among his captains and upbraids Ulysses and Sthenelus, who each of them retort fiercely — Diomed checks Sthenelus, and the two hosts then engage, with great slaughter on either side.

Now the gods were sitting with Jove in council upon the golden floor while Hebe went round pouring out nectar for them to drink, and as they pledged one another in their cups of gold they looked down upon the town of Troy. The son of Saturn then began to tease Juno, talking at her so as to provoke her. “Menelaus,” said he, “has two good friends among the goddesses, Juno of Argos, and Minerva of Alalcomene,