If you think of the excerpt from Homer’s “Iliad” regarding Hector’s fate, believe the correct answer is the second statement: fate is controlling.
The Greek belief of fate being controlling is reflected in the scene of fight of Achilles and Hector in front of the Skaian gates in Homer’s “Iliad”. This belief is best represented at the end of the fight when Zeus shows up with the beam scale of fate which means that even the highest god isn’t above the fate and can’t control it.