The Great Myths: The Iliad | Hera's Plan (Episode 6)

Episode 6: Odysseus and Ajax try to convince Achilles to return to combat, but the Greek warrior is obstinate and rejects their appeals. He wants to go home to Greece. On the battlefield, Agamemnon, Diomedes and even the cunning Odysseus are injured one after the other...

The wall built by the Greeks threatens to collapse. Angry about not being able to intervene, Hera concocts a plan and seduces her husband Zeus using Aphrodite's magic girdle. While he is sleeping, she rushes to warn Poseidon, who is also riled by having to obey orders from the god of Olympus. He rallies the Greek troops who retake the upper hand. Ajax takes on Hector, the eldest son of the king of Troy, and injures him. When Zeus wakes up, he is horrified to discover that Hector is dying.