Question

consider the role of the gods in book 22. how do they direct or influence events? do you think their intervention turns the human characters into puppets, or do the humans still make choices that affect their fate? give reasons for your answer

Answer 1

The Iliad is a book where the god's are clearly a focal point to the book.The reasons behind their motivations and decisions isn't based on any modern As we have seen, its gods were within the world, one that they did not create. Consider for example the effect upon Zeus of his son Sarpedon's death, or Thetis