English

Pamela Weiss

5 October, 19:47

Which stage of the hero's journey is represented in this passage?

This was an army, trained to fight on horseback

or, where the ground required, on foot. They came

with dawn over that terrain like the leaves

and blades of spring. So doom appeared to us,

dark word of Zeus for us, our evil days.

My men stood up and made a fight of it-

backed on the ships, with lances kept in play,

from bright morning through the blaze of noon

so holding our beach, although so far outnumbered;

but when the sun passed toward unyoking time,

then the Achaeans, one by one, gave way.

A. The return home

B. The road of trails

C. The transformation

D. The call to adventure