the Greek gods and goddesses play an important role in Homer's Iliad. write in detail about their actions in the epic
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Schein claims that “one of the most characteristic features of the Iliad is the gods.”3 The gods and their relations with men play an important role in the poem. Throughout the poem, Homer represents the gods as intervening in human affairs and by this way they change the destiny of human life.
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Aidoneus = Hades: god, king of the dead.
Aphrodite: love goddess, Supports the Trojans.
Apollo: god, sends a plague, son of Zeus and Leto. Supports the Trojans.
Ares: god of war. Supports the Trojans.
Artemis: goddess, daughter of Zeus and Hera, sister of Apollo. Supports the Trojans.
Athena: goddess active in battle, daughter of Zeus. Supports the Greeks.
Axius: river in Paeonia (in north-eastern Greece), also the river god.
Charis: goddess, wife of Hephaestus.
Dawn: goddess.
Death: brother of Sleep.
Demeter: goddess of grain and food.
Dione: goddess, mother of Aphrodite.
Dionysus: divine son of Zeus and Semele.
Eileithyia: goddess of birth pains and labor pangs.
Fear: goddess: accompanies Ares and Athena into battle.
Flight: god.
Folly: daughter of Zeus.
Furies: goddesses of revenge within the family.
Glauce: a Nereid (daughter of Nereus).
Gygaea: a water nymph: mother of Mesthles and Ascanius (allies of the Trojans).
Hades: brother of Zeus and Poseidon, god of the dead.
Halië: a Nereid (daughter of Nereus).
Hebe: goddess who acts as cupbearer to the gods.
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