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Recommended: Analyze the character of odysseus from troy

Jose Torres
Due September 28, 2015
Homer on War and the Gods War was clearly a significant past time in the eras of ancient Greece. We look back at ancient cultures and we see a lot of art or if possible writings that contribute to our understandings of what life used to be like for perhaps a Citizen of Troy. We see several works of art such as busts or vases that heavily coincide with our knowledge of Ancient Greek and in particular their secular worshipping of the Greek gods. The gods had a very heavy influence on the actions taken by those that were a part of this ancient world. This era of the Greeks belonged to the Olympians: Zeus and Hera as the King and Queen of the gods. Through the epic poems of Homer, we can see exactly how the people …show more content…

Achilles is the mortal son of the Queen of the gods Hera. He is the Chin up full armor, shield and sword soldier in the Greek army. It also follows the other sides of the war and it demonstrates exactly how much the gods actually have impact on the people aside from the fact that the gods have very specific understanding to not intervene or change the fate of what is bound to happen like the death of Patroklus no matter the fondness that Zeus carried for one of his own children. You can see in The Iliad exactly how glorified war is among the …show more content…

So in a sense Thetis was supporting or helping decide the faith of Hektor by helping Achilles with this new armor. Which is not surprising considering all the gods had picked their sides of the Trojan war but were not supposed to intervene, until they did behind the back of Zeus and we got a clear understanding of which gods did what for who. Achilles doesn’t have the same smarts that Odysseus possesses but Achilles can be touched through emotion, something not represented in the Odyssey. Achilles is eventually convinced to return the body of Hektor to his parents in Troy so that Hektor can have the proper burial. Priam is able to show us that even though Achilles had the unconditional support of gods, he is only mortal and is able to appeal to Achilles very own humanity or feelings for his own father. Achilles returns the body of Hektor and Priam is able to give him the proper burial as tradition would call for.
The Iliad in this way shows us all that the mortals go through due to the whim or omission of the gods in their lives. The war originally started because of the promise by Aphrodite to Paris of the most beautiful woman which happened to be Helen, wife of Menelaus. The Iliad has been able to depict the strong connection between gods and mortal and the gods are always in favor of

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