Analyzing Details
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"If you go forth now with the fighting men, you will make for yourself a name that shall last while men tell stories round the fire, even to the ending of the world. But you will not live to see the first gray hair in your beard, and you will come home no more to your father's hall."
—Black Ships Before Troy,
Rosemary Sutcliff

What does the passage suggest about how the ancient Greeks viewed their heroes?

They were honored with long-lasting fame.

They told stories around the fire.

They lived long and fulfilling lives.

They only fought because they had to.