While some of the female characters in Homer's The Illiad are powerful goddesses, others are merely helpless mortal women. Hera is one of the most powerful forces in the poem. She holds more power over Zeus, and the other characters, than many of the male gods. "You'll set me curry-worrying with...

In Homer's epic poem The Iliad many men die, many men fight gloriously and live. Neither group did so without the assistance and mentoring of their respective gods or goddesses. The gods and goddesses of Greece helped impact and influence the outcome of wars in this certain culture and time pe...