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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