How Is Job Treated In The Iliad

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The depictions of human beings in classical Greek works, like Homers Iliad is comparable to how Job is treated during his trial. In the Iliad during the Trojan War, the gods including Zeus and his wife Hera gather at Olympus to feast. The feast has its course during heavy human’s battles, the pawns are fighting one another for their lives. The gods are unmoved by the mortal’s pain and agony who face the sword. Instead, they indulge laughter and talk about who would be victorious, they viewed it as a sport. This shows humans being regarded as paws and worthless in classical Greek tradition just as Job is. In job’s trial when God has given Satan way, he destroys Job’s life, during the first trial Satan only spares four messenger to report the