Uncertain Realities or fate?

One morning Zeus sat on his throne above the Mount Olympus and he was deep in thoughts. Athena went up to him and wanted to know what was worrying him. The Chief God said, “ I am worrried over Athens. The city shall be levelled to a rubble.” Athena who was the guardian spirit over Athens shrugged her shoulders to say it was no concern of his. “ I am worried for you, daughter. It is your name that will be despised for the ruin.” The goddess shrugged it off and went off.
Meanwhile in the city of Athens, Themistocles who was the undisputed darling of the masses was listening to one Simonides. The man wanted the hero of Salamis to use his influence to give his family some honors that he felt was due. From the crowd one soothsayer came out to abuse Themistocles saying, “ Here is the one who is going to destroy the city!” Simonides became very angry at her disrespect. In order to show off his loyalty to Themistocles he asked his servants to drag the woman away. The woman was not to be silenced and she continued hollering, “ Because you want some favor for your family must you make a fool of yourself?”
Themistocles drew Simonides aside and said, “ Do not for my sake treat her vilely. Mind her age?”
“ But she is attacking your good name!”
“What if she were proved right after all?” Themistocles asked, “ I may be beloved of the people. One month from hence what they may say about me or what I shall do no one can say for certain. Let us now talk about the matter at hand.”
Themistocles indeed was proved right. He caused great mischief to the city that made him famous.
How a hero becomes a zero or a nobody becomes the darling of the masses and wars won or lost have their causes already in circulation. Events pile up on events and these chain of events direct nations and persons to respond. It may be for good or bad. No one may say for certain why it had to so that an event came to pass.
benny