"Leda and the Swan" by William Butler and "The Iliad" by Homer .
By The viewpoint of both stories where the Gods are described as being impersonal is just a manifestation that God's see humans as play things.
In the Iliad, most of what the Gods do to humans have in large part have to do with their respect for fate. Fate is the predestined end for all mankind which Zeus chooses for everybody. If a God has a grudge against a human for not supplicating to ask …
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…the preexisting condition that led to the fate of Troy. The rape of Leda is symbolic for the rape of Troy, because the question arises, "Was Helen really at fault?". The answer is no, because ultimately it is Zeus's fault, but really no one can blame him for fate's manifestation which can be seen as his will.
Bibliography
Yeats, William Butler. Leda and the Swan 1939.
Fagles, Robert. Homer: Illiad. New York, New York: Penguin Group, 1990.
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