Do the old myths still have something to tell us? What experiences could the figures from the
Trojan War convey to us today? The author wanted to find out. He set out to talk to them. They
answered his questions. He was able to win over prominent interlocutors such as Cassandra
Penthesilea and Odysseus. You can look forward to the answers and immerse yourself in the
magical world of Greek mythology. This book The Gods Do Not Play Dice takes you into fictional
dialogs with figures and creatures who are willing to share their stories and their lives with
you.Homer's Illiad is considered humanity's first war report. However he did not always
clearly separate what had been handed down from poetry. My dialogues through time deal with
this period through the person of Cassandra. I was sometimes surprised at how little the means
and methods of war have changed to this day.Writing is public thinking. Look what I was
thinking! There will always be someone later who is convinced that they could have formed these
sentences these thoughts better. But then it is too late then the order and the selection are
fixed and therein lies the writer's crime. The reader accuses him of this whenever
possible.Excerpt: The gods don't play dice - (Kassandra) So you learned that Menelaus would
never let a spoiled boy take his wife. You had seen it and you had warned them. You had told
them again and again. Beware of the Greeks you are said to have shouted more likely to
stammer in one of these fits even when they bring gifts. But they didn't believe you. Apollo's
curse has long since worked against you.Your father punished you for these words. They were not
beneficial for Troy he had said. The truth is of little use in war. And doubts whether
justified or not only ever benefit the enemy. You had to learn these words war and enemy and
before that attack. That seemed to have become the most important word in Troy: assault or
rather cowardly assault.His question then hit you with full force whether you wanted the
victory of the Greeks and the downfall of Troy. It hit you like an ax and split your mind. How
could he have thought that question? Then how could he even pronounce them?Had he denied you
your love for him for yours at that moment? Really? Whether asked this way or another this
question silenced you forever. You never spoke out loud to others again. You never really
confided in others again. Hints fragments at best and then immediately being silent
again.Your dearest brother Helenos your twin was still on your side. He saw what you saw
saw the inevitable. But he remained silent in the face of his angry father. He seemed blind
like his priests. All men who only whispered to the king what he was ready to hear. Hecuba
often scolded her for this and left no doubt about Priam's decisions which were actually
hers.You had often overheard them Kassandra heard them talking when they were conferring
together when they were conferring in the palace. You could still move freely. After all you
were one of them. It was like that until the first time you loudly disagreed with them.You
heard that they knew that your father's sister Hesione was not stolen by the Greeks but
willingly became Telamon's wife. You heard that this marriage without the king's consent was
treason in your father's eyes. He could not allow a Greek to come to an agreement with a Trojan
of her status without his consent. That had to be seen as an insult......But then he made his
most fatal mistake. Your brother Paris was commissioned to bring Hesione to Troy without
properly informing him. He couldn't do that with this dispatch accompanying him. So he decided
untrained in dealing with kings and politics to kidnap Helena in return for the perceived
insult. As if he could make up for one mistake with another.
