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Homeric Gods Vs. Modern Day Belief In The Iliad

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The Iliad, written by Homer, was believed to of been written sometime in the 8th century B.C., it tells the story of violence, war, and pride between the Trojans and the Acheans. In this paper we are going to discuss a few very interesting points. One of the points being ancient belief in the Homeric gods vs. modern day belief in the real God. The point of this paper is to know whether we should consider the Homeric gods equivalent to the biblical God.
We know that the people of the Iliad regularly pray to the gods for help. In the same sense as we pray to God and ask Him for help with a difficult task. We will come back to this point a little later. For now we will talk about how the people of the Iliad use their gods. The gods are called
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