What Makes An Epic Hero?

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Epic poetry consists of many elements. But one of them is that the poem centers around a hero who does the impossible which few do not dare to do. “And with his sword unsheathed he went straight for Euryalus. Now truly mad with terror, Nisus cried aloud. He could not hide in darkness any longer: “No, me! Me! Here I am! I did it! Take your swords with me, Rutulians. All trickery was mine. He had not dared do anything, he could not. Heaven’s my witness, and the stars that look down on us, all he did was care too much for a luckless friend.” (The Aeneid, page 275) This is an example in the Aeneid when Euryalus saved his best friend Nisus screaming out loud to the Latin’s so that they will follow him and not his friend Nisus but unfortunately