How to Persuade the Gods to Get on Your Side

There's almost always going to be an element of the success of it that isn't in your oll. How do we persuade the gods to get on our side? Consider timotheus, a successful athenian general who was targeted by his political enemies back home. They had a painting made of timotheus sleeping peacefully under a tent while fortune personified herding several greek cities into a lobster trap.