Zeus, the ruler of the gods and the king of Olympus, has a weakness? Yes, Even a God can have a weakness like the mortals have. Even the greatest and the mightiest god have a weakness. Homer is implicating in these books that the gods has their own weaknesses. But, in books 11-17, this trait is only focus on Zeus and trying to show if Zeus can have the capability of handling his own weaknesses. But it seems that Zeus can’t handle his weaknesses.
Here are the following that shows Zeus weaknesses:
• In book 14 of the Iliad, It shows how Aphrodite and Hera made Zeus a LOSER and HELPLESS
• How Zeus did become a loser?
• Because Hera can’t withstand the favor of Zeus to Hector, The Goddess of Marriage asks help from Aphrodite, Goddess of Beauty.
• Hera asks a Token for lovers from Aphrodite so that Hera can seduce Zeus and make Zeus fall asleep so that Zeus attention in the battle will be distracted.
• To make Zeus fall asleep, Hera ask the god Sleep to help her. At first Sleep denies the order but he soon accepts it because of Hera’s offer to him.
In these examples, Homer shows how the Hera and Aphrodite manipulate and revealed the weakness of Zeus. Even Zeus, The ruler of the Gods, is not immune to Aphrodite’s Seduction and Hera’s plans. By compiling all the ideas, we can see that Homer, the author, is trying to show the readers that the Greek gods are having the same mistakes as the human do in their living. Greek gods commits mistakes and failures that can be compared to mortals mistakes. It also shows that the Greek Gods are not immune with the other Greek gods’ power, thus showing that these Greek gods have their very weaknesses in their form.
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Good organization of ideas!
It's worth noting that you are able to identify certain weaknesses of the gods.
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