Exploring Divine intervention

In the Iliad one pattern/theme that is prevalent is the idea of divine intervention, we will also look at why it doesn't occur in the Movie Troy by Wolfgang Peterson.

There are many examples of this happening in Homers Iliad.

In the Iliad Athena stops Achilles from losing his temper and attacking Agamemnon. She tells him that he will gain greater glory if he waits, . This would have affected the majority of the story and plot If Achilles had attacked Agamemnon. A dead Agamemnon would have upset the chain of command and he would have probably ended the war there and then and would have lost an opportunity to create history and be remembered as a glorious Warrior.
 Another example of divine intervention is when Hector becomes stricken with fear as Achilles approaches and he flees around the walls of the city. Achilles chases him three times around the city, then on the fourth; Athena takes the form of Deiphobus which makes Hector think that he is not standing up to Achilles alone. Once again confident, the Trojan hero turns and attacks Achilles with his spear but unfortunately Achilles kills him and drags the body away.
 The final example in The Iliad is when Paris is spirited away back to his bedroom to be with Helen when he is about to be slain by Menelaus. If this where to of occurred and had Menelaus gained the redemption against Paris, then the war may never of happened and such Poems such as the Iliad would never been created.  

The reasons Wolfgang Peterson shy’s away from going into the back story and diving intervention is simply due to our culture possibly wouldn't accept the use of gods in the film as well as it would very difficult to develop these ideas realistically in the time given for the Film. Although there is still gods in our modern culture it would be difficult to represent the Greek gods well enough into a 3 hour+ movie. This movie rather uses Romance and Action to excite the audience rather than giving detailed description into the real Greek and Trojan lifestyles and cultures at that time in history. I believe it would be very difficult to understand some of the aspects of Greek culture such as divine intervention for a modern audience.