>>212244863the homeric view of gods and the fate is that fate is not explicitly set in stone. In the illiad zeus knows that his favored son is to die, and whilst he could stop it it would start a chain of all the other gods getting pissed and saving their favorites too, so he has to die. Another part has achilles fighting up to the walls of troy and zeus says that he must be stopped lest he defy fate (that troy won't fall in this way) or something along those lines