The gods were meeting on Mount Olympus, their spiritual home.
They had their meeting on Olympus, home of the gods. Their first meeting takes place in Book 1.
The Iliad was long considered to have been a purely mythical account. Since then, the city of Troy, central to the Iliad, has been located and the book has been found by scholars to reflect life during the Greek Mycenaean period. Thus, the historical content of the book may have some factual basis. The Iliad also contains many accounts of the gods and is sometimes regarded, along with the Odyssey as the 'bible' of the ancient Greeks. As the question suggests, there are some parallels between the Iliad and the Bible. Having said that, it is a matter of faith whether to believe in the gods of the Iliad, and few do today.
Some Gods favored the Greeks, others the Trojans. Athena favored the Greeks when she helped Achilles fight and kill Hector.
The meeting of the gods is mentioned in Psalms 81, which begins, "God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods." 1 Kings 22:19-22 also tells of Yahweh meeting with his heavenly council, in a passage that describes heaven in much the same way as the more ancient Ugaritic texts of the Sumerian religion. In both cases, it is clear that the gods were meeting in heaven.
They fought against The Greeks and they lost
On the side of the Greeks are:On the side of the Trojans are:AthenaAphroditeHeraApolloPoseidonArtemisHermesLeto
Iliad
Homer is not a god. He was a mere mortal who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey. These are sometimes considered to be the Greek bible, but they were also criticised for unfairly portraying the gods as having human-like failings.
The Gods intervene in human affairs in unpredictable ways.
so it would guide the dead through the jurney of meeting the gods
The Greek epic poems 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' .
Homer was not a god. He was the author of two mythological stories, the Iliad and the Oddysey.