God and Man in Homer’s Iliad, Virgil’s Aeneid, and Dante’s Inferno Essa

God and Man in homers Iliad, Virgils Aeneid, and Dantes InfernoThe truest of mans goals is to create art. Art is a by-product of the gift of man over the animals, creativity. Truly, creativity is a tax return of God in man and a very possible commentary of the Genesis 127 phrase in his own image, on with othersthe possession of an immortal soul or the ability to speak. And creativitys ultimate end product is art. And art more often than non in the history of man has led man to pay faithfulness to his creator. Three of the classic literary artistic works of mankind, Homers Iliad, Virgils Aeneid, and Dantes Inferno, featureif not focuson the graven image or deities of the respective authors and their relation to the characters of the story in the interaction mingled with the two and the worship practices of the characters.Although religion in general can and does inspection and repair simply as background material in a work, in most if not all literary works the inclusion of a divine being as a character is so that he or she can interact with the other, non-divine, characters. A story where Apollo is present only when unimportant is not traditional at all (that is to say, it is foreseeably possible, barely vexed and therefore not likely, especially in a non-modern work). In the Iliad, Homer presents some of the Greek pantheonZeus, Hera, Apollo, Thetis, et aland their purpose is interaction with the human charactersAchilles, Hector, and othersbut this is expected and obvious to any reader. The notability of the relations is the ease of them. Thetis is the dumbfound of Achilles, she a god, he mortal. Athena is on the side of Achilles, and fools Hector in he and Achilles final battle (Il. 22). But these are common in the world of the Iliad... ...ity. New York Columbia UP, 1974.Grayson, Cecil, ed. The World of Dante. London Oxford, 1982.Homer. The Iliad. Trans. Robert Fagles. The Norton Anthology of World Literature. sixth ed. Vol. 1. Ed. Maynard Mack, Bernard M. W. Knox, John C. McGalliard, P. M. Pasinetti, Howard E. Hugo, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Ren Wellek, Kenneth Douglas, Sarah Lawall. New York Norton, 1992. 98-208.Jebb, R. C. Homer An Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey. Port Washington, Slatkin, Laura M. The Power of Thetis. Berkeley U of California P, 1995.Virgil. The Aeneid. Trans. Robert Fitzgerald. The Norton Anthology of World Literature. 6th ed. Vol. 1. Ed. Maynard Mack, Bernard M. W. Knox, John C. McGalliard, P. M. Pasinetti, Howard E. Hugo, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Ren Wellek, Kenneth Douglas, Sarah Lawall. New York Norton, 1992. 98-208.NY Kennikat Press, 1969.