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 Trojans would have caught the soil in their teeth before they got back into Ilion.” What ancient Greek belief does this excerpt best illustrate?
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the importance of heroic traitsD
the value of funeral ritualsAchilleus says Apollo personally intervened and stopped him from attacking the Trojans. This shows the ancient Greek belief that gods could influence human actions and events. The excerpt focuses on a god’s intervention, not fate, heroic qualities, or funeral rituals.
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