Summary

In “The Horses of King Rhesus,” Diomedes and Odysseus are sent by Greek council to spy on the Trojans at night.

Simultaneously, a foolish Trojan man called Dolon offers to spy on the Greeks if Hector promises him Achilles’s horses upon Trojan Victory. Hector agrees.

Diomedes and Odysseus see Dolon and ambush him. Odysseus interrogates him. Dolon, trying to save himself, reveals that while the Trojan warriors kept watch at night, their allies from other lands were less careful. He tells them the best Trojan horses belong to King Rhesus and where to find them. Diomedes then kills him.

Diomedes and Odysseus go to Rhesus’s camp. They kill him and take his horses, riding them back to their camp as the sun rises.

In “Red Rain,” Zeus brings dark storm clouds above the Greeks at...