Question

from the iliad of homer 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 envied and stalked away against the city with high thoughts come then inside the wall, my child, so that you can rescue the trojans and the women of troy... who is speaking and revealing a perspective in this excerpt? a heros friend a heros parent a hero a god

Explanation:

In the excerpt, the speaker says "I am an immortal god" and refers to the other as a mortal. The options are "a hero's friend", "a hero's parent", "a hero", or "a god". Since the speaker claims to be an immortal god, the correct option is the one labeled "a god".

Answer:

a god