Homer’s, The Iliad, is an ancient Greek poem set nine years after the Trojan War, which recalls some of the significant events that took place during that era. The book, Literature of the Western World, Volume I, The Ancient World: Through the Renaissance, describes Greek gods as superior to human beings through their power, beauty and immortality. The book goes on to explain that unlike Yahveh the Hebrew God they didn’t demand that people follow a code of ethics which we can see throughout Homer’s epic poem. With our interpretation of what God is it can sometimes difficult to comprehend how superior Greek Gods were as described in, The lliad. The gods picked they would favor for different reasons. Therefore, throughout Homer’s, the Illiad,
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One example occurs in Book 1 , Zeus intervenes in the life of Achilles when Thetis persuades Zeus to send a false dream to Agmannenon in which a figure in the form of Nestor persuading him to take down the city of Troy if he sends a full-scale assault. Thetis persuades Zeus because her son Akhilleus urges her to ask this question from him and Zeus agrees because his wife favors the Greeks. Another example is when, In Book 24 we can see that while Achilles keeps on mourning his beloved friend Patroclus’s death, “ He tossed and turned, remembering with pain Patroklos’ courage” (567), and he keeps on abusing Hector’s body. However, we also see that Apollo protects Hector’s body, “Kept his flesh free of disfigurement”(568) and tries staving off scavengers and other animals from rotting his flesh. However, at the twelfth day Apollo persuades Zeus that, “ Achilles is to take fine gifts from Priam, and in return give back Prince Hektor’s body” (570), that Achilles should let Hektor’s body be ransomed. After that Zeus summons Thetis and asks her to tell Achilles to, “ Relent, and give back Hektor’s body” (571), and at the same time he sends Iris to Priam. Zeus wants Thetis to be in charge of this, because Achilles is Thetis’s son and she can melt his rage. Zeus also sends Hermes,
One example occurs in Book 1 , Zeus intervenes in the life of Achilles when Thetis persuades Zeus to send a false dream to Agmannenon in which a figure in the form of Nestor persuading him to take down the city of Troy if he sends a full-scale assault. Thetis persuades Zeus because her son Akhilleus urges her to ask this question from him and Zeus agrees because his wife favors the Greeks. Another example is when, In Book 24 we can see that while Achilles keeps on mourning his beloved friend Patroclus’s death, “ He tossed and turned, remembering with pain Patroklos’ courage” (567), and he keeps on abusing Hector’s body. However, we also see that Apollo protects Hector’s body, “Kept his flesh free of disfigurement”(568) and tries staving off scavengers and other animals from rotting his flesh. However, at the twelfth day Apollo persuades Zeus that, “ Achilles is to take fine gifts from Priam, and in return give back Prince Hektor’s body” (570), that Achilles should let Hektor’s body be ransomed. After that Zeus summons Thetis and asks her to tell Achilles to, “ Relent, and give back Hektor’s body” (571), and at the same time he sends Iris to Priam. Zeus wants Thetis to be in charge of this, because Achilles is Thetis’s son and she can melt his rage. Zeus also sends Hermes,