that crazy lunatic, who has no notion of right and wrong. So, father Zeus, will you get angry with me if I roughly strike Ares, and drive him from the battlefield?”
Hera speaking here, and equating right and wrong entirely with her desire.
"There is certainly not more suffering behind Beowulf than there is behind the Iliad; but there is a consciousness of good and evil which Homer lacks." (C.S. Lewis, "A Preface To Paradise Lost")
