Gods In The Iliad

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In the Iliad, many gods are introduced throughout the book as friends and family members with humans. Book one is a great example of how these humans, and gods, interact with each other. When reading Book one, I was able to understand how the gods and humans communicate and help eachother out. A great example of this is when Chryses gets angry with Agamemnon, and asks Apollo for help. Another example can be seen is book one, where Achilles speaks with his mother and asks her for help. The first scene that caught my attention, was when Chryses asks Apollo for help. After the Greeks attacked a small town in Troy, two women were taken away by Agamemnon's men. One of the girls was a cousin of Hector and the other was Chryses daughter. Their …show more content…

The gods in the Iliad do a great job in messing and speaking with humans. They do it by granting them their wishes and giving them their support if it is very well needed. Apollo and Chryses are both the best example I can come up with because they show how they both look after eachother. Also Zeus with Achilles, even though he owed his mom a favor. Both of these examples are very important to the story because of how they add more to the war that is going on. It also gives you more information about the character's persona and how it affects the situations that are brought into the …show more content…

Both of them did helped each other with favors that affected everyone. Homer did a great job in showing how the gods were important throughout the war by describing how strong their powers were. As for the humans, he also did good in describing how they were good in getting what they wanted. For example Achilles with his wish of making Agamemnon's military weaker and dumber. In my opinion, if the humans did not ask the gods for help, they would have been lost as well as the gods. If the gods did not have the humans ask for help, they would have seemed less than them. The gods might be stronger than the humans with power, but at the same time the humans are stronger than the gods when it comes to asking for things. Homer does a great work in showing how much the humans and gods have an effect on the war and within one

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