Question

Twenty years gone, and I am back again
on my own island.
As for my change of skin,
that is a charm Athena, Hope of Soldiers,
uses as she will; she has the knack
to make me seem a beggar man sometimes
and sometimes young, with finer clothes about me.
It is no hard thing for the gods of heaven
to glorify a man or bring him low.
—The Odyssey,
Homer
Based on what Odysseus says in the passage, what has he learned?
Responses

Humans are under the gods’ control.
Humans are under the gods’ control.

Humans can change from beggars to soldiers.
Humans can change from beggars to soldiers.

Humans can become like gods

Answer 1

Humans are under the gods’ control.

He says Athena can change his appearance and raise or lower a man’s fortunes, showing that the gods determine human fate.