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


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


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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).