Please begin with the following thesis statement: What makes the Hero? Odysseus, the one who is “god like” and the true King of Ithaca, in his quest against significant odds to return home from the Trojan War, or Gilgamesh, the one who is two parts god and one part human and the tyrant King King of Uruk, on his quest to find immortality after witnessing the demise of his true friend Enkidu. As the protagonists of these literary classics, Odyssey and the Epic quest of Gilgamesh, the theme of the Hero is present even though presented in very different ways.
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