Read the excerpt from Gilgamesh: A New English
Version.
What characteristic of an epic hero does the excerpt
reveal?
At four hundred miles they stopped to eat,
at a thousand miles they pitched their camp.
• in bravery in the face of danger
They had traveled for just three days and nights,
O willingness to endure a voyage
a
six weeks' journey for ordinary men.
O ability to deliver compelling speeches
When the sun was setting, they dug a well,
O tendency to seek supernatural assistance
they filled their waterskins with fresh water,
Gilgamesh climbed to the mountaintop
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