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translated by richard lattimore
book twenty - two
so along the city the trojans, who had run like fawns, dried
the sweat off from their bodies and drank and slaked their thirst, leaning
along the magnificent battlements. meanwhile the achaians
sloping their shields across their shoulders came close to the rampart
but his deadly fate held hektor shackled, so that he stood fast
in front of ilion and the skaian gates. now phoibos
apollo spoke aloud to peleion: \why, son of peleus,
do you keep after me in the speed of your feet, being mortal
while i am an immortal god? even yet you have not
seen that i am a god, but strain after me in your fury.
now hard fighting with the trojans whom you stampeded means nothing
to you. they are crowded in the city, but you bent away here.
you will never kill me. i am not one who is fated.\
deeply vexed achilleus of the swift feet spoke to him:
\you have balked me, striker from afar, most malignant of all gods,
when you turned me here away from the rampart; else many trojans
would have caught the soil in their teeth before they got back into ilion.
now you have robbed me of great glory, and rescued these people
lightly, since you have no retribution to fear hereafter.
else i would punish you, if only the strength were in me.\
he spoke, and stalked away against the city, with high thoughts
in mind, and in leaping speed, like a racehorse with his chariot
who runs lightly as he pulls the chariot over the flat land.
such was the action of achilleus in fleet and quick knees
read the excerpt from the iliad of homer
the old man stretching his hands out called pithily to him:
\hektor, beloved child, do not wait the attack of this man alone
away from the others. you might encounter your destiny beaten
down by peleion.
what ancient greek belief does the excerpt best illustrate?
the importance of heroic actsthe value of funeral ruesthe influence of godsthe power of fate

Explanation:

In the excerpt, Apollo (a god) intervenes and taunts Achilles. The old man's warning to Hektor also implies divine influence (mention of Peleion, likely related to gods). The interaction between Achilles and Apollo shows that a god can disrupt Achilles' battle plans, highlighting the gods' role in events.

Answer:

the influence of gods