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As with modern wars, the economic objective was played down and the people were told that they were fighting for a moral cause. The gods usually played some part in that. Sometimes it was quasi-ethical -- a god punishing someone for violating one of his rules. But sometimes the gods just meddled in human conflict out of pure self-indulgence. A quarrel between three goddesses was said to be the indirect cause of the point of honor that was the alleged reason for the Trojan War. Once the fighting began, even gods who had no part in that original quarrel took sides in the war and used their various super-powers to help whichever side they supported. The Iliad is full of anecdotes about gods or goddesses pulling strings in particular battles.

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