What kind of sentence is this?

Xaviar would like go quote text from a written book. the authors name is on the book. how should he quote the text in his paper?

The excerpt above is from page 21 of harry potter and the sorcerers stone by j.k rowling. which passage represents a

Twenty years gone, and i am back again on my own island. as for my change of skin, that is a charm athena, hope of soldiers, uses as she will; she has the knack to make me seem a beggar man sometimes and sometimes young, with finer clothes about me. it is no hard thing for the gods of heaven to glorify a man or bring him low. —the odyssey, homer based on what odysseus says in the passage, what has he learned? humans can become like gods. humans are under the gods’ control. humans can change from beggars to soldiers.