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  • An epic hero is significant and ___________________.
    glorified
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  • An epic hero is a strong and responsible ______________.
    leader
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  • An epic hero represents the ______________ of his society.
    ideals
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  • An epic hero performs ___________________ deeds.
    brave
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  • An epic hero faces ___________ for glory or good of society.
    death
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  • An epic hero is e__________.
    ethical
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  • An epic hero is on a ____________________.
    quest
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  • An epic hero possesses _______________ strength, intelligence, and/or courage.
    superhuman
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  • The ones drew it whom I myself would have wanted chosen, four men, and I myself was the fifth, and allotted with them.'
    Odysseus
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  • Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy.
    The Poet (Homer)
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  • ''our guest and new friend - nameless to me still . . . get a black ship afloat on the noble sea, and pick our fastest sailer; draft a crew of two and fifty.''
    Alcinous, King of the Phaeacians
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  • '"Stranger, you are a simple fool, or come from far off, when you tell me to avoid the wrath of the gods or fear them. The Cyclopes do not concern themselves over Zeus of the aegis, nor any of the rest of the blessed gods, since w...
    Polyphemus
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  • "Son of great Laertes, Odysseus, master mariner and soldier, bad luck shadowed me, and no kindly power; ignoble death I drank with so much wine."
    Elpenor
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  • "Son of Laertes and the gods of old, Odysseus, master of land-ways and seaways, why leave the blazing sun, O man of woe, to see the cold dead and joyless region?Stand clear, put up your sword; let me but taste of blood , I speak t...
    Tiresias
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  • "O least of living creatures, out of this island! Hurry! I have no right to see on his way, none to give passage to any man whom the blessed gods hate with such bitterness. Out. This [return] means you are hateful to the immortals...
    Aeolus
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  • "This way, oh turn your bows, Achaea's glory, As all the world allows--Moor and be merry. Sweet coupled airs we sing. No lonely seafarer holds clear of entering our green mirror."
    The Sirens
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