Briefly give the gist of Books 3,4 and 5 from Homer's Iliad.

In Iliad 3, we have a duel between
Menelaus and Paris/Alexander. The winner of the duel will determine who gets "Helen and
all her treasure." After the duel, the two armies will make a peace treaty and the war
will end. Menelaus would have won the duel, but the goddess Aphrodite intervenes and
rescues Paris. The book ends with Paris and Helen in their bedroom at Troy, while the
Greeks were claiming that Menelaus was victorious.

In
Iliad 4, however, hostilities are renewed as Athena inspires one of
the Trojans to shoot an arrow at Menelaus. Much of the rest of the book is spent with
Agamemnon stirring some of the other leading Greeks to action. The book ends with the
Greeks and Trojans fighting vigorously against each
other.

Iliad 5 is one of the most
delightful and interesting books in the epic as the Greek Diomedes goes on a major
rampage. Students of Roman literature will note an appearance by Aeneas, hero of
Vergil's Aeneid. Diomedes knocks Aeneas unconscious with a massive
boulder, but Aphrodite rescues Aeneas (he is her son). Diomedes will not be stopped,
though. Inspired by Athena, Diomedes attacks and wounds Aphrodite and then wounds Ares
himself, who had come to aid Aphrodite.