Divine Intervention: Religion in Different Ages Religion Paper

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Divine Religion Intervention
Divine religion intervention was one of the common aspects of religion in the 16th century and different authors who lived through the century present the aspect of divine religion intervention in their waysCITATION Bea78 \p 78 \l 1033 (Bean 78). One of such authors is Herodotus who in his writings possesses what appears to be real ideas which are in both in a conscious and unconscious about the nature of the divine intervention and its relationship with history. Divine religion intervention is also presented in the poem Inferno by Dante Alighieri where we learn about the character Dante, a 35-year-old man who has become spiritually lost and he is wandering from the path to righteousness and the path of God. Divine intervention has also been presented differently in Odyssey which is one of the two Greek poems that were attributed to HomerCITATION Boi94 \p 18 \l 1033 (Boitani 18). The Odyssey is fundamental to the modern Western Cannon since it is the second oldest of the Western literature just after the IliadCITATION Whi17 \p 8 \l 1033 (Whitmarsh 8). The Odyssey informs us about a man Odysseus who begins a 10-year old journey from Troy. The name of the epic poem can be interpreted to mean an epic journey. The above texts portray divine intervention in different ways, and this paper aims to make a comparison of how religion has been portrayed differently in the texts.
In The Odyssey, divine intervention has been illustrated through the role of Athena in the life of Odysseus. Athenas is the one who guided him on his journey back to Ithaka. Athenas is portrayed as a protective god who guided the life of the main character in the epic poem Odyssey. In the history of Herodotus, Herodotus discusses the action of vengeance which was carried out by the Persians against the Greeks. He also gives a brief history of the career of Aristagoras and Hipparchus whom we learn that he was a tyrant of Athens and had a dream on the vengeance that was going to happen to the Greeks. The prophecy delivered by the figure says,' Suffering from a courageous spirit, O Lion, bear the unbearable; No man who has acted unjustly fails to pay the price of vengeance' (p. 5). The vengeance began with the actions of Alexander, the son of Priam who used violence to get a wife from Greece as a form of vengeance. Dante also presents the aspect of vengeance in the first part of the divine comedy called Inferno. In the first part, Dante presents the description of hell which he has come across and gives the impression that indeed if people do not follow the right path, then they will end up in hell which is not a good place according to Dante. Divine intervention in Odyssey has been illustrated through the role of Athens while in both the History of Herodotus and Inferno, divine religion intervention has been presented in the form of vengeance where disobedience leads to punishment from the supreme.
In the poem The Odyssey, Athena pleads with the father of Zeus so that he can allow him to go home to his family by saying, ‘But my own heart is broken for Odysseus'CITATION Haw68 \p 65 \l 1033 (Hawkes 65). In the other parts of the poem, Athenas also plea...