/lit/ - Literature

"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus
and its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the Achaians,
hurled in their multitudes to the house of Hades strong souls
of heroes, but gave their bodies to be the delicate feasting
of dogs, of all birds, and the will of Zeus was accomplished
since that time when first there stood in division of conflict
Atreus’ son the lord of men and brilliant Achilleus."

What did Homer mean by 'and the will of Zeus was accomplished' ? Did he want the Trojans to be destroyed? Is there a cryptic meaning?

As a college exercise, we were given a quote from Hamlet and tasked with making a short story related to the quote. The one I received was "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder" and, as good as this quote is, I can't think of a god damn thing. Anyone mind lending some ideas for a short story?