Read the excerpt from The Iliad of Homer.Deeply vexed Achilleus of the swift feet spoke to [Apollo]:"You have balked me, striker from afar, most malignant of all gods, when you turned me here away from the rampart, else many Trojanswould have caught the soil in their teeth before they got back into Ilion.”
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the value of funeral ritualsAchilleus says Apollo turned him away from the rampart, preventing him from killing more Trojans. This shows that the gods can intervene in human events and affect what heroes are able to do, so the best answer is “the influence of gods.”
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