Read the excerpt from The Iliad of Homer.But if they are dead already and gone down to the house of Hades,it is sorrow to our hearts, who bore them, myself and their mother, but to the rest of the people a sorrow that will be fleetingbeside their sorrow for you, if you go down before Achilleus. Come then inside the wall, my child, so that you can rescuethe Trojans and the women of Troy . . .
The speaker calls the person being addressed “my child” and says that he and the child’s mother would grieve if the child died. This shows the speaker is the hero’s parent. The correct choice is “a hero’s parent.”
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