... leaders as well as heroes. A true leader must be comfortable in his solitude and able to act alone. In each epic both characters are in situations where they are both isolated and feel overwhelmingly lonely. Gilgamesh encounters loneliness more than once throughout the epic. In the beginning, he is so lonely that he acts as a tyrant, ignores his duties as a king and pursues ... Odysseus are superior human beings, they don't know when to keep their mouths shut "and when not to challenge the gods In The Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh turns down Ishtar when she proposes to him and taunts her...

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