And Hektor knew the truth inside his heart, and spoke aloud:

“No use. Here at last the gods have summoned
me deathward.

I thought Deiphobos the hero was here close
beside me,

but he is behind the wall and it was Athene
cheating me,

and now evil death is close to me, and no longer
far away,

and there is no way out.”

–The Iliad of Homer,
Richard Lattimore

What does Hektor realize in this passage?

What ancient Greek belief do Hektor’s thoughts most clearly reflect?

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.