At the time of Homer, it was normal for gods to meddle in...

At the time of Homer, it was normal for gods to meddle in human affairs, and he shows this in The Iliad. A vast majority of the Greek gods play some role in how the Trojan wars turns out, which is what the poem is all about. Homer uses the gods to deviate from how normal wars are played out. The head god, Zeus, will be the focus as I go through what he did and how it affected the War as well as The Iliad. Zeus tried to stay out of the Trojan War for egotistic motives and was viewed as a father figure, not being biased to either side of the conflict. He likes to keep tabs on the other god’s dealings in the war. If he had not been involved as the top dog of Olympus, the Trojan War would have been much more hectic, and probably an arena for†¦show more content†¦The time frame is one of the reasons Homer’s writings became well known. He wrote during a time where literacy almost disappeared, and was starting to come back. The other reason being he wrote about the He roic Age in the Dark Ages of Greek history, giving the people something that brought them pleasure in bad times. The Iliad does not tell the story of the entire Trojan War but focuses on some of the tenth year. The story shows Achilles and all his anger. Achilles being the best current warrior at Troy. It also tells of the history of the fight taking place. Homer makes the assumption that the reader knows the history of the Trojan War and instead concentrates his time on developing the other characters of the story. This screams to the audience that Homer is not all about the historical facts and is more of a writer who does this for fun and not to simply write for the education of the reader. The underlying plot of The Iliad, shown at the start of the play, is the anger of Achilles. His anger stems from the unreasonable decisions of Agamemnon, the head of the Greek army. This causes the Greek army to take a hit when Achilles decides he will not go to battle with the Trojans. The theme of the Trojan War is another one that is webbed into the poem alongside a third theme that is all about the backbone of my topic, Zeus. At the end of the epic, after Achilles stops being angry and decides he will fight, the themes come back together. Zeus’s serves as a diplomat