Greek Gods
Greek Gods
Greek Gods
With our view of God, it can sometimes be difficult to comprehend the
actions and thinking of the Greek deities. The Christian God does not tend to
take such an active role in the affairs of people's lives, where, on the other
hand, the Greeks regarded direct involvement by the gods as a daily,
uncontrollable part of life. Needless to say, divine intervention was a major
variable in the equation of Homer's Iliad.
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…showed last 75 words of 983 total…used the gods and their actions to establish twists on the plot of
the war. It would not have been possible for him to write the story without the
divine interventions of the gods. Indeed, they affected every aspect the poem in
some way, shape or form. Yet, from the immortal perspective of the Greek god,
the Trojan war, and everything related to it, was only a passing adventure in
the great expanse of time.
