Books Four and Five

I prayed to Apollo again, I have a feeling I'm going to be doing that a lot more than usual nowadays. He gave me another vision, but this time it was of the Gods of Olympus. Zeus fully declared Menelaus the winner of the duel between him and Paris, and Hera. Oh Hera. Evil, vicious, cruel, Hera! How could she! It can't be true. It can't be that she wants Troy destroyed! What did we ever do to her that would make her want to kill even the defenseless women and children! Warriors are one thing, they choose to go out and fight and defend. I have the utmost respect for them, though I would rather Hector not be one and stay home safe and sound with me. But to have a whole city raided and destroyed! I don't want to believe it, I can't believe it!

In a way, I sort of wish that I was right there on the battlefield. I'm becoming more nosey as the battle leads on, and the only way I can find anything out is from my prayers of Apollo or the tiny bit of information that Hector gives me. Although, I always hate asking my poor Hector anything that pertains to the war, for he lives though the horrors of it and should not have to live through it when he comes up to the city to rest. However, Hector did vent to me about how Diomedes was becoming such a nuisance. He went and killed Pandarus and continued to slaughter many others. Those poor families. When Hector lien to rest, Apollo visited me and mentioned that Diomedes actually went and harmed a God! Two Gods in fact! Aphrodite and Ares. Zeus's response to how Ares complaining made me chuckle, I have to admit. He said he deserved it.


The God's seem to have taken over this war. I wonder if we are not just pawns in their little game up there in Olympus? It's seems pretty sad if a god has to solve their own quarrels through the lives of mortals.


Family tree of some of the Gods
http://tccl.rit.albany.edu/knilt/index.php/Lesson_1:_How_did_Greek_mythology_shape_the_lives_of_Greeks%3F

Lattimore, Richmond, trans. The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: The University of
     Chicago Press, 2011. Print. This book was the base of which I got the
     majority of the information in my characters blog post.