Greek Mythology is Made From Myths

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    Greek mythology is made from myths, legends, gods and heroes that the ancient Greeks centered

    their lives around. There are twelve gods, known as the Olympians, who were present in all

    spheres of life. They provide explanations for the unexplainable events such as why things are

    the way they are and how they came to be. The gods influence the lives of mortals. They might

    help them when they are in trouble and offer them guidance about the future but they also

    determine the mental will of mortals: who will live and who will die. The intervention of the

    gods in human life is also present in Homers epic the Iliad, where the gods play a significant

    role in the lives of the character and the events of the Greek-Trojan War. The gods were divided

    into two camps and each picked who they were going to favour for different reasons. Apollo who

    plays an influential role in the Greek-Trojan war is a constant supporter of the Trojans. He

    intervenes or doesnt intervene on the bases of their own selfserving motives. Apollo is very

    complex deity. As a god of shepherds he was associated with music and was a protector of the

    flocks, he was also god of medicine and replaced Helios and Imperion as the god of the son he is

    also called Phoebus an epithet that means bright. Apollos intricate behaviour is seen throughout

    the Iliad and it is expressed as a duality, at times he is expressing his powerful wrath and

    destructive force and at others he is stating his healing powers and desire for order.

    Pandaros to whom he gives his bow.

    Greek-Trojan War. Apollo is the most important divine supporter of the Trojans.

    Willcock tells us, "He is the archer god who strikes from afar, the god of

    disease and healing" (4). Apollo's first intervention occurs after Agamemnon

    had taken Apollo's priest daughter as a war prize. Apollo sends a nine day

    pestilence upon the Greeks. "Pack animals were his first target, and dogs, /

    but soldiers, too, soon felt transfixing pain from his hard shots and pyres

    burned night and day" (Iliad I. 23-24). Apollo also intervenes in the Greek-

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    Trojan War to assist the human characters. One of the warriors Apollo assists

    is Pandaros. In fact, Apollo is the one who gave Pandaros his bow after he

    broke the truce with Menelaos by shooting an arrow at him. But, this passage

    does not truly refer to the actual action of Apollo handing Pandaros his bow,

    but rather that, as Seth Schein believes, "Pandaros was a specifically good

    archer" (57). Because he is a good archer, it is believed that Pandaros is

    blessed by the god of archery. Impartial ___> neutal

    Agenor, Hektor's half brother, is another Trojan warrior that Apollo

    aids. Agenor is debating on whether or not to run into the city of Troy to save

    the Trojan people, because if he does he probably will be caught and killed by

    Achilles. Finally, he decides to run into the city and stand and face Achilles.

    He hit Achilles with a spear cast, and Achilles begins to fight back. But,

    before Achilles could do anything, Apollo intervenes by taking the form of

    Agenor, and removing him from the battle. Then, runs away to lure Achilles

    apart from the rest of the Trojans. Mark Edwards believes "Because of Apollo's

    intervention, both Agenor and the Trojans are saved from Achilles' wrath

    One view of the gods' seemingly constant intervention in the war was that they were just setting

    fate back on the right course. For instance, when Patroklos was killed outside of Troy, Apollo

    felt no guilt for his doings. As a god, he was just setting fate on a straight line. Achilles laid

    blame on Hektor and the Trojans. He did not even consider accusing Apollo, who never came

    into question, although he was primarily responsible for the kill. Apollo's part in the matter was

    merely accepted as a natural disaster, or illness, would be today.

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    In the Iliad, it is Apollo who intervenes to check the hubristic onslaughts of the Greek

    warriors[16]; and in the theomachy thatZeusstages for his own entertainment,

    Apollo refuses to join in the frivolous fighting[17]. "Under his most important and

    influential aspect may be included everything that connects him with law and

    order"[18]

    Apollo tries his best to make his father

    is furious with Agamemnons refusal to ransom Chryseis, Apollo expresses his wrath ing by

    sending the plague to the Greeks for nine days. The Apollo

    Behet I ashper kur nuk pranohet epersia e tij

    Apollos intricate behaviour is seen throughout the Iliad and it is expressed as a duality, at times

    he is expressing his powerful wrath and destructive force and at others he is stating his healing

    powers and desire for order.

    They provide explanations for the unexplainable events such as why things are the way they

    are and how they came to be. The intervention of the gods in human life is also present in

    Homers epic the Iliad, where the gods play a significant role in the lives of the character and the

    events of the Greek-Trojan War.

    As it evolves

    Apollos wrath

    Apollo is the first god to make an appearance in the Iliad and we get a look at the anger that he

    feels and as well as the great consequences of it. The actions of Apollo have destructive force, it

    holds off the greek from the Trojans.

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    Destructive force

    Desire for order

    Apollo respected Zeus and his enforcing of the laws of fate, however, and kept fate as it was

    deemed to

    Represents order He represents order, harmony, and civilization in a way that most other

    Olympian deities cannot quite equal

    Apollo is rational, he respected zeus and

    be. An example of this is when Achilles' servant, Patroclus, tries to take the

    city of Troy. Before Patroclus was allowed to wear Achilles' armor into battle,

    he promised only to drive the Trojans away from the ships and not to take an

    Offensive against the city of Troy. Only the reflection of Patroclus by Apollo's

    shield three times prevents this. This lack of moderation shown by Patroclus,

    as well as the deeming of death before the end of battle by fate, granted by

    Zeus, leads to his death (Iliad, Book XVI, 398).

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    To conclude the Trojan War is the most famous of all Greek conflicts, and the Iliad perhaps the

    most famous literary work from ancient Greece. The epic of the Trojan War depicts the dark

    complexity of Greek mythology. The strength of so many of the myths is their depth of character

    and complex morality. They are not simple fairy tales of good against evil; they show conflicted

    characters with both good and bad qualities, ambiguity, and the roughness of life.

    Apollo as a god represent a higher standard of justice and honour, as when he refuses to allow

    Hectors body to remain unburied, yet at the same time he shows the same bloodthirstiness and

    blind favouritism as the warriors on the battlefield.

    shpeton jeten e eneas

    revered

    Apollo successfully defends Aineias from Diomedes's attacks, and issues the Achaian warrior a

    stern warning not to mess with the gods.

    The king of the gods says he would have banished Ares long agohe just has a soft spot for his

    son. He calls Apollo to come heal Ares's wounds