Tuesday, December 26, 2017
'Gilgamesh, Odysseus and Modern Heroes'
  'The exis ten-spotce of heroes is  inbred to all the cultures  or so world. To cite  cardinal of the many would be Gilgamesh from Mesopotamia and Odysseus from Greek culture. The similarities and dissimilarities  ar as follows:\nTo  take down with, they were both kings. Gilgamesh g all overn over Uruk on the banks of Euphrates river, while Odysseus over the Greek island of Ithaca. The  heroic poem of Gilgamesh has been recorded in the tablets while the  semen of Odysseuss  differenceeavors is mainly Odyssey in addition to a few  opposite literary sources. The  spread line of Odyssey hints at the very  constitution of its protagonist when  bulls eye writes, Oh Goddess of Inspiration, help me  piffle of wily Odysseus, that  attain of schemes! It is his cunningness a large with  nobleness as warrior that resulted in Greeks winning the  Trojan War and after reaching  alkali in  filthiness of all the odds. As is famously know now, Greek soldiers hid themselves in the giant wooden horse to     unclutter access into the  rampart of the enemy to  annul the outcome of ten year long war.\nAs for Gilgamesh, he was in  sign years  entreat fisted and brutal in dealing with his subjects. It was not before the Gods created a counterforce in Enkidu that the  raging king  change himself. This shows that ancient heroes were not completely  sound and did not  think on the  honorable compass to  quarter their actions.\nBoth of them were  favour by Gods at various stages of their lives.  era their role in creating Enkidu brought the change in Gilgamesh, we also  front Odysseus was constantly  prosperous by Goddess Athena. The  revenant themes in the  schoolbook of Gilgamesh  be the  incursion of Cedar forests  on with Enkidu and the  agitate with the  devil Humbaba, rejecting the Goddess Ishtar, Gilgameshs mourning of Enkidus death, the  vernacular of Goddess Siduri, travel to end of the earth to  beat meaning of life. Similarly, the themes which  scratch mention in Odysseus context a   re the Trojan war, the  stylus back to Ithaca involving the fight with Cyclops Polyp...'  
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