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The Ancients
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The Role of the Gods in the Iliad
It would take many many podcasts to tell the tale of the Iliad in full in its complete detail but you mentioned a couple of other things there. It's often been said that the gods see the war almost like a chess game and they're looking down from Mount Olympus and they all have their favorites and they quarrel among themselves. There's a lot of interference from above it's not a kind of level playing field by any means because the gods are so involved. Certain people such as Athena and Apollo certainly are very much there on the battlefield at certain times.
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