What qualities best describe the characters portrayed in Homer's works the Iliad and the Odyssey?
A) Life is centered on the home, where wives tend to hearth and family, lamenting the fates of their warrior husbands until they return victorious or dead.
B) During times of war, men like Achilles demonstrate an extreme determination toward vengeance.
C) The deities are the driving force behind all human interaction and activities and the human play out these divine schemes.
D) Homer's characters are very much human (not mythical), experiencing the daily drudgery, twists, turns, and frailties of human nature to the fullest.
E) The majority of women are faithful, while the men do not honor the marriage, and most bring concubines home from war as a prize.
D
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