... , there is a particularly poignant statement made by Ares in regards to his role in the lives of humans when he states in one of the important quotes from The Iliad by Homer, "We everlasting gods . . . Ah what chilling blows/ we suffer-thanks to our own conflicting wills-whenever we show ... angry, but is merely stating a fact. No matter which way the reader chooses to look it at though, he still knows that the gods are watching and finds out later that they are prone to favoritism, error, and violence. Unlike Aeneas in The Aeneid, Achilles is prone to fits of rage ... the issue of t...

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