The Idiod and the Odyssey - The Interplay Between Life and Death

The iliad puts the humans on a kind of worldly stage and the gods on their olympian stage. There's a kind of interplay between these two realms that actually allows us to understand what is the ky subject of the iliad, which is life and death. Are the gods sensitive to the meaninglessness of their own lives? Do they get bored, like amelia marti gets bored? We see their triviality e in a sent so even at the very beginning of the ilad, the poet sets it up as all these warriors are going to die. You know, this is awful. Their souls are going to going to flee, complaining to hades

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