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 struck, and stalked away against the city with high horsetails,
and stuck in the ground, but pallas athene snatched it, and gave it
back to achilleus, unseen by hektor shepherd of the people.
how does the excerpt reveal ancient greek beliefs?
through proof of society’s respect for the dead
through an example of a person’s belief in fate
through proof of hektor’s impressive bravery
through an example of a deity’s intervention

Explanation:

The excerpt shows Pallas Athene (a deity) snatching and returning an item to Achilleus, and Apollo (a deity) interacting with Achilleus. This depicts a deity intervening in human affairs, which is a key aspect of ancient Greek beliefs. The other options: "proof of society’s respect for the dead" is not shown; "a person’s belief in fate" is not the main focus here (the focus is deity action); "Hektor’s impressive bravery" is not the point of revealing beliefs here. So the correct option is the one about a deity’s intervention.

Answer:

through an example of a deity’s intervention