And Jove said, “Juno, you can choose some other time for paying your visit to Oceanus - for the present let us devote ourselves to love and to the enjoyment of one another. Never yet have I been so overpowered by passion neither for goddess nor mortal woman as I am at this moment for yourself-”

~ The Iliad - Book XIV (Samuel Butler Translation. p100 / v312)

Agamemnon is dejected, hopeless and ready to quit. Ulysses and Diomed urge him to continue fighting. Juno tricks Venus and Sleep to help her seduce Jove and put him to sleep. She tells Neptune to help the Achaeans. They fight with increased vigor and defeat the Trojans. Hector is injured and is taken back into the city.

In book 14 of The Iliad, Juno (Hera) schemes to seduce Jove (Zeus) and put him to sleep so that she can help the Achaeans fight back against the Trojans and push them back to the city. She tricks Venus into giving her a girdle with love charms to seduce anyone, tricks Sleep into putting Jove to sleep and tricks Jove into sleeping with her - all by telling a series of lies. Jove falls for it, and the Greeks valiantly fight, injure Hector and push the Trojans back into the city walls.


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