What is the effect of zeus and ares intervening in the battle

I am going to take a shot in the dark here.  If you have read the Iliad as well as other myths, you will that Greek gods often favor a certain side and would sometimes enter the conflict so that they either help  them be victorious or save them in times of peril.

brutus overlooks that the majority of the crowd served julius caesar the military general. he appeals to their citizenship as romans by calling them first by that name in his salutation: "romans, countrymen, lovers." mark antony, however, speaks in terms understood by the military, by calling them first by, "friends, romans, countrymen." he recalls not only caesar the general but caesar the friend, whose body they see covered with stab wounds.