Achilles choked the Scamander with Trojan dead until the river god rose in flood against him, nearly drowning the greatest of the Greeks. Only Hephaestus's fire, sent at Hera's command, forced the river to relent.
When the river god Scamander rose in flood to drown Achilles during the fighting at Troy, Hera sent Hephaestus to drive the river back with blasts of divine fire until Scamander's waters boiled and the god begged for mercy.
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