Thanks for your entry, Beshoy. You raise very good points.  The extent of divine manipulation of the humans in the Iliad is a crucial point, and you should  try to follow that track through the rest of the poem.  This question is important in all of the poems we'll read, but more important for the Iliad than for any of the others.  (There is an  article about the role of Thetis, and how that explains the fate of Achilles, posted on the UBLearns website).  But you should keep track of how the gods intervene at various stages in the Iliad-- when do they intervene directly in the action?  What can they do, and what can't they do?  Are they agents of Fate?  Subject to Fate?  Is Homer consistent in his idea of what gods are?