Diomedes

In the fifth year of the Trojan War, Diomedes had a day that no mortal warrior had ever had before him — and none would have again.With Athena at his side, he drove the Trojans back across the plain, wounded Aphrodite when she tried to carry Aeneas to safety, and then drove his spear into Ares himself. Two gods. One day. The tradition called it his aristeia — his moment of peak excellence — and pr...