In the book of Joshua, the Israelite

s believed they were commanded by God to fight these wars. They believed in destroying the “unbelievers” and sinners in the name of their God. Using these wars, Israel’s God was demonstrating his power and wrath as a warning to other nations. Because of this, none should be spared for all are accountable to God. When Israel would attack a city, very few were spared. Only the virgin women and items that could pass through fire. These two bounties represented purity. The remainder of people and possessions were to be sacrificed to God. The treatment of enemies during these wars were brutal and usually fatal to all.

The battles between the Greeks and Trojans in the war of the Illiad, however, were much different from the primitive holy wars of the Bible. War was a game and a sport to the Greeks and Trojans. This belief is probably more relative to the manner in which wars are fought between nations in the present. They believed their should be honor and glory within war and that one should only fight someone of his own equal. To attack someone weaker would be undignified and dishonorable to himself. Therefore, the battles of the Illiad only involved the men, unlike the book of Joshua. The honor in this war even extended to the dead and their corpses. After a soldier died, the soldier’s allied force would want to protect the body from being dis

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