After reading the Epic of Gilgamesh – the “hero of the ancient world par excellence” – how has your understanding of the “hero”

One sentence definition of the word “Hero” (according to your own understanding of what how heroism is defined in our contemporary context). After reading the Epic of Gilgamesh – the “hero of the ancient world par excellence” – how has your understanding of the “hero” and “heroism” changed? In what way does your understanding of heroism remain unaltered? Why is Gilgamesh a hero? (that is, in what does his heroism consist?) (500-600 words).