Question

read the excerpt from gilgamesh: a new english version. at four hundred miles they stopped to eat, at a thousand miles they pitched their camp. they had traveled for just three days and nights, a six weeks journey for ordinary men. when the sun was setting, they dug a well, they filled their waterskins with fresh water, gilgamesh climbed to the mountaintop, he poured out flour as an offering and said, \mountain, bring me a favorable dream.\ which feature of epic poetry does this excerpt most clearly show? a courageous hero who answers a call to adventure a journey filled with many challenges a vast setting of distant landscapes supernatural forces, such as gods or monsters, that intervene

Explanation:

The excerpt mentions traveling four hundred miles to eat, a thousand miles to pitch camp, and a journey that would take six - weeks for ordinary men but was completed in three days and nights. It also describes actions like climbing a mountaintop. These details emphasize the vast distances and settings of distant landscapes.

Answer:

a vast setting of distant landscapes