Question

Read the excerpt from The Iliad of Homer.

Answer 1

Answer:

A hero's parent

Explanation:

This is an excerpt where Priam, ruler of Troy is addressing to his older son and heir to the throne, Hector who was about to have his duel with Achilleus.

The dearest son of King Priam and Hecaba, whom the Trojans, for his courage and nobility, revered as a god. During the Trojan War, Hector led the Trojan troops and made all important decisions.

Achilles pierced Hector's throat with his spear at the point where death was closest to life, and the hero, on his exhale, only still managed to send Achilles a plea for his body to be returned to the Trojans.

Answer 2

Answer:

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 fleeting

beside their sorrow for you, if you go down before Achilleus.

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 god

a hero

a hero’s parent

a hero’s friend

Explanation: