Read the excerpt from The Iliad of Homer.But when for the fourth time they had come around to the well springsthen the Father balanced his golden scales, and in themhe set two fateful portions of death, which lays men prostrate, one for Achilleus, and one for Hektor, breaker of horses,and balanced it by the middle; and Hektor’s death-day was heavierand dragged downward toward death, and Phoibos Apollo forsook him.