How does the narrative depicted in “the epic of gilgamesh” best fit the definition of an epic?

a. it originates in an ancient civilization
b. it is told in a serious manner using elevated language
c. it is about a romance that eventually leads to marriage.
d. it includes mysterious events that take place in gloomy settings

Read the excerpt from the odyssey. then, his chores being all dispatched, he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast, and whisked away his great door slab to let his sheep go through—but he, behind, reset the stone as one would cap a quiver. the use of the epic simile in this excerpt readers understand that— they cyclops has eaten another bunch of odysseus men. odysseus and his men are still trapped inside the cave. the enormous stone is easily and routinely moved my the giant cyclops the cyclops takes his sheep out to pasture with him in the mornings