The Roles the Gods Played in the Iliad and Troy
Human Mythology 130
The roles the gods played in the Iliad and Troy
The gods were more involved in the Iliad than in the movie Troy. In the Iliad they manipulated people’s emotions, the weather, the outcomes of battle; they would disguise themselves to trick the characters into the move they wanted them to make, physically trip them up to give the opponent a better standing. In the movie the gods had no visible role they were more of a believe system and a thought process. The characters believed that there were signs from the gods letting them know how to proceed. An example of this is when determining wither to go into battles after a farmer saw a sparrow with a snake in its talons. The examples that will be used are the relationships between Agamemnon and Achilles; Hector and Achilles; and Achilles and Prium. The information shown will show not only the differences in the interactions of the gods, specifically Zeus, Hera, Athena, Apollo, and Thetis, but how the lack of interaction changed the story slightly.
The scene in both versions of the argument between Agamemnon and Achilles is very different from the written hero epic of the Iliad to the modern day Hollywood movie of Troy. In the Iliad the gods played a more active role in the argument between the two men than in the movie Troy where there was no direct interaction outside of Thetis prophecy to her son at the beginning where she informed him he would be remembered for his greatness if he went to war or he could stay home be loved. If he chose to stay home his name would be forgotten after a few generations. The argument in the Iliad began after Chryseis’s father the priest of Apollo’s temple approached Agamemnon with a “rich ransom” to beg for the return of his daughter in the name of the far shooting Apollo and was refused. This angered Apollo so the god began to use the hatred between the two men to create dissention that allowed the
The roles the gods played in the Iliad and Troy
The gods were more involved in the Iliad than in the movie Troy. In the Iliad they manipulated people’s emotions, the weather, the outcomes of battle; they would disguise themselves to trick the characters into the move they wanted them to make, physically trip them up to give the opponent a better standing. In the movie the gods had no visible role they were more of a believe system and a thought process. The characters believed that there were signs from the gods letting them know how to proceed. An example of this is when determining wither to go into battles after a farmer saw a sparrow with a snake in its talons. The examples that will be used are the relationships between Agamemnon and Achilles; Hector and Achilles; and Achilles and Prium. The information shown will show not only the differences in the interactions of the gods, specifically Zeus, Hera, Athena, Apollo, and Thetis, but how the lack of interaction changed the story slightly.
The scene in both versions of the argument between Agamemnon and Achilles is very different from the written hero epic of the Iliad to the modern day Hollywood movie of Troy. In the Iliad the gods played a more active role in the argument between the two men than in the movie Troy where there was no direct interaction outside of Thetis prophecy to her son at the beginning where she informed him he would be remembered for his greatness if he went to war or he could stay home be loved. If he chose to stay home his name would be forgotten after a few generations. The argument in the Iliad began after Chryseis’s father the priest of Apollo’s temple approached Agamemnon with a “rich ransom” to beg for the return of his daughter in the name of the far shooting Apollo and was refused. This angered Apollo so the god began to use the hatred between the two men to create dissention that allowed the