The Trojan War intensifies! The Greeks suffer a massacre and are slowly recovering when the god Zeus rains blood on the Greek lines, panicking them! The Greek fortifications seem to hold—until the Trojan warrior Hector shatters one of the Greek gates with a hurled boulder! The Trojans then pass through the gates, altering the course of the epic conflict! How many more will die to determine the fate of the woman Helen?

Licking their wounds, the Trojans have withdrawn behind their impenetrable city walls. All, that is, save their most celebrated warrior, Hector, who refuses to retreat. And so the stage is set for the Achaeons' mightiest hero, Achilles, to face Hector in a single combat that may decide the future of this epic struggle. It's the final chapter of this timeless work that has spoken to countless generations of the triumphs and tragedies of war.

Reconciling himself to Agamemnon in the wake of Patroclus' death, Achilles goes on a rampage, slaughtering Trojan soldiers. Achilles nearly takes the city himself until he is challenged by Prince Agenar, actually Apollo in disguise. Looking down on the battlefield Zeus himself rescinds his injunction against divine interference and the gods join the struggle once more, shaking the heavens with the sudden unleashing of their

awesome power!