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The Iliad Research Paper

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In the Iliad, the Gods relate to human beings through two distinct ways. Firstly, they can relate as external powers that influence the lives of mortals from without as when Apollo unleashes plague upon the Achaeans. Secondly, from within, as when Aphrodite incites Helen to make love to Paris or when Athena gives Diomedes courage in battle. In the Odyssey, the Gods are much less grand. The Gods function more as leading for spiritual guides and supporters for the human, sometimes assuming mortal disguises in order to do so. The operation of the Gods sometimes remains otherworldly, as when Poseidon decides to wreck the ship of the Phaeacians, but generally they grant direct aid to particular individuals. In that sense, the change in the behavior

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