The Iliad, Book 14

Decision time.  Seeing the breaches through their defenses, Nestor gathers with Agamemnon, Odysseus, and Diomedes (all injured) to decide next move.  Agamemnon considers retreat to pull ships back into water and save them; Odysseus shows this would be suicide; Diomedes talks them into another charge or at least convincing remaining Greeks to mount another charge.  Poseidon arrives to encourage-- tells Agamemnon that the Trojans will be driven back yet.  Seeing this, Hera plots to remove Zeus's protection of the Trojans.  Tricks Aphrodite into helping, enlists Sleep's aid, seduces Zeus, knocks him out.  Sleep gives Poseidon the signal to mount the charge.  In the fighting, Aias strikes Hektor and he is rushed back to the city.  Back to a draw.