Messenger since polybus was naught to thee in blood.
oedipus what say'st thou? was not polybus my sire?
messenger as much thy sire as i am, and no more.
oedipus my sire no more to me than one who is naught?
messenger since i begat thee not, no more did he.
which of the following identifies the irony than occurs in this passage?
a. oedipus is relieved by his polybus's death .
b. the messenger is unaware of the prophecy.
c. the messenger is confused by oedipus's reaction to polybus's death.
d. oedipus realizes that the man he had avoided to prevent the prophecy from being fulfilled was not his father.

gilgamesh is an epic hero from birth, as he's brought to the world by the hand of several gods who shaped him with the goal of saving humanity. there's a passage from the text that reads "the glorious sun shamash bestowed upon him glory; adad the terrible god of storms bestowed upon him courage. the great gods perfected his magnificence beyond all others, terrible like the great wild bull". this is a great example that show some of the super-human qualities that the gods gave gilgamesh upon his birth.

as gilgamesh grows he has to face many challenges that put his heroism to task. the courage he displays along the way, prove that he's ready to live up to the godly qualities brought upon him. at one point he has to overcome a wild beast by the name of hubamba "whose roar is a flood, whose mouth is fire, whose breath is death", as the text reads. the actions taken by gilgamesh, beating the beast with the use of his super-human force, examplify why he shoud be thought of as an epic hero.

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