... only provide the traditional mythological background but they also dictate the action of the poem. For instance in book fourteen, Hera deceives Zeus into sleep, which causes Trojan successes to be reversed and in book fifteen, Zeus reawakens and causes the Trojans to pursue the Greeks back to the ship once ... again. Also, scenes such as in book one where we see Zeus and Heras domestic carry on, add a ... is his imminent and inevitable death. Achilleus favour from the gods and his heroic status serve only to make his mortality all the more poignant. Homer illustrates that however great ...

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