re the mortals never gained too much power, almost as if the were terribly insecure about the power they possessed compared to the power of the mortals that they thought they controlled.The very premise of the Epic of Gilgamesh involved a hero who almost equaled the gods. In the beginning of the epic, the gods sought to control and destroy Gilgamesh by creating an antihero to defeat him. Later, the equals join, building the insecurities of the gods. Eventually, the gods afflict Enkidu, ally of Gilgamesh with a fatal disease, by that stopping the power of the dynamic duo.Perhaps this fear of the mortal's strength was a legible concern of the gods. The Iliad depicts a Diomeds who rallied against many Trojans. When Aphrodite stepped in his way, he stabbed the goddess, and she fled to Olympus to cry on her mother's lap: "Oh my wound! Diomedes hit me! that bully! because I was trying to save my own son Aineias, my darling favorite! This war of the Trojans has become a war of Achaians against gods (64)!" In response, her mother, Dione speaks of past things humans have done to the Olympians:Make the best of it my love. Be patient even if it hurts. Many of us Olympians have had to make the best of what men do, and we have brought much trouble upon one another. Ares made the best of it, when Otos and Ephialtes made him their prisoner they shut him up in a brazen jar for thirteen months. Indeed that would have been the end of the greedy fighter, ....... Hermes stole him away, when he was already in great distress from his cruel prison (65). The gods were challenged by the power of the mightiest humans and went to great lengths to stop these people.Eventually, Zeus, the strongest god, tries to encourage the gods to involve themselves in the war. Consequently, the war continued to drag on without the intervention of the gods for quite a while. Achilles fighting by the river with Aeneas brought the god Scamander in the fighting; Scam...
