Interpreting the Actions of the Gods
Interpreting the Actions of the Gods The role of the gods in the Trojan War proved to be a major importance in the final outcome and the psychological wellbeing of the mortals who fought for both the Trojan side and the Achaians side. The Greek Gods high, on Olympus watched the bloody battlefield below with a sense of satisfaction that they controlled the fate of the battlefield. The Trojan War some could say was actually a war among the gods as much as it was a war between the Trojans and the Achaians. The Iliad hardly represents the world as Homer's audience knew it. Gods are frequently coming down to the battlefield to aid in the fighting and thus the heroes perform deeds no normal man could ever accomplish. When reading Homer's Iliad you have to realize that the gods never were really there but are merely used for an easy explanation to the strange happenings of war. We can't believe that something in fact happened just because it is noted in a mythology handbook. The Greek people needed the gods to explain mysterious occurrences that occurred within their everyday lives so that these strange happenings made sense to them. The role of the gods needs to be interpreted as well as the various myths that
major culture to explain and help understand the strangeness that the world they somehow mess up and miss they don't blame it on themselves, they blame it have died in foreign land to get her back? Don't stand idle here! Go among would be better if they had not done them at all. A prime example of this is saving them and giving people someone to put the blame on, besides themselves they used gods. Another example of war crazed men who prolonged the battles
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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