The gods are furious, and Poseidon, in disguise, is already helping the Greek, ignoring Zeus’s order. Zeus is now watching the battle from the top of Mount Ida, just outside Troy.
In this section of the Iliad, Zeus has forbidden the pro-Greek gods (among them Hera, Athena, and Poseidon) to intervene by helping the Greeks in the battle against the Trojans. Johnston’s complete translation of the Iliad can be found at: Homer, Iliad, book 14, lines 185-419, translated by Ian Johnston, 2019.
