It would be perpetual chaos if if gods really intervened in human affairs as they do in the Odyssey; because gods just as they are painted in books as Odyssey, have human characteristics and become involved in human quarrels . They manipulate, they lie, they covet, with the addition of having special powers who can destroy and change entire cities. They also would intervene without the same notion of consequences as humans have. Life would change for worse.
For example, in Odyssey passage:
<em>" And Jove said, ‘My child, what are you talking about?
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<em>How can I forget Ulysses than whom there is no more capable
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<em>man on earth, nor more liberal in his offerings to the
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<em>immortal gods that live in heaven? Bear in mind, however,
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<em>that Neptune is still furious with Ulysses for having blinded
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<em>an eye of Polyphemus king of the Cyclopes. Polyphemus
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<em>is son to Neptune by the nymph Thoosa, daughter to the
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<em>sea-king Phorcys; therefore though he will not kill Ulysses
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<em>outright, he torments him by preventing him from getting
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<em>home. Still, let us lay our heads together and see how we can
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<em>help him to return; Neptune will then be pacified, for if we
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<em>are all of a mind he can hardly stand out against us.'"</em>
