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is also the Galactic Empire versus the Rebel Alliance. In The Epic of Gilgamesh, there is a different version of good versus evil with Gilgamesh and his pride. He’s so prideful that he creates a statue of himself and puts it in his city, the city of Uruk. He is also prideful when he goes into the forest to kill Humbaba just because he cares what other people think of him. If he kills Humbaba, which he did, his people will admire him more and he will be a hero. After Enkidu dies Gilgamesh goes on…

society more than we can imagine by further pushing our creativity to limits. We are going to start of by looking at the first story in human history: The Epic of Gilgamesh. This story centers around the King of Uruk, Gilgamesh. This was written in Mesopotamia, in the city of Uruk. This was written a good 1,500 years before Homer wrote the Iliad . It is safe to say that it was written in the first centuries of the second millenium B.C. It was later put in storage by King Assurbanipal…

The story of Genesis in the Holy Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh are both two ancient texts. Many scholars theorize that one text may be inspired by the other. They both are so similar that often it is easy to assume that the stories may have occurred around the same period of time. Throughout the first ten chapters of Genesis and the first eleven chapters of Gilgamesh there are uncanny similarities that are hard to dismiss. Two of the ones that stood out the most were the parallel in the roles…

civilizations, it got the nickname “The Cradle of Civilization.” Sumer, Uruk, and Akkad were probably the most known cities in the Fertile Crescent. Sumer was in fact the southernmost city of all of Mesopotamia. The Sumerians called themselves the “black-headed people.” The Sumerians helped invent cuneiform, which was a form of picture writing. Akkad ruled over a vast part of the Fertile Crescent. Eventually the Akkadian Empire fell. Uruk was actually where the first civilizations arose…

Both are detailed in the epic when Gilgamesh picks fights with the village men of Uruk and as he travels the distance of fifty leagues a day in order to reach the Forest of Cedar to slay Humbaba. The first act in which Gilgamesh attempts to attain some form of immortality is through the building of the wall around Uruk, a great act that he believes will cause him to be remembered for centuries. This marks the beginning of Gilgamesh’s quest for immortality…

before, but instead they didn’t and wouldn’t have killed him until he did something that called for some sort of punishment. Lastly, good leaders are not self-centered and consumed with themselves. If Gilgamesh was a good leader, then the people of Uruk wouldn’t have informed the gods about how…

you see that both are great warriors that take great pride in protecting their own. These two characters can be non-other than Gilgamesh and Achilles. Achilles fought for the Greeks against the Trojans during the Trojan War. Gilgamesh the king of Uruk fought for his people against beasts that no ordinary person can conquer. Many ask how these two born so many years apart can be so similar. As well as how these two characters in the end…

Niclole Nisenbaum Gilgamesh was introduced to us as a fearless warrior, a man that was revered by all the people of Uruk. He brushed off death by saying “The life of man is short.” (p.16) And “If I should fall, my fame will be secure.”(p.17) . As the epic progressed we began to see a more cowardly side of Gilgamesh, one that was unexpected. It was apparent that Gilgamesh could not come to terms with his mortality especially after the death of his close friend, Enkidu. Mortaility was a…

A Hero’s Humanity Throughout history humanity has been the creation and ruin of many great societies. “By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.” (Ashley Montagu) In The Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh, the demi-god struggles to accept his humanity and the faults that come with it, while chasing immortality. Similarly, Odysseus in The Odyssey by Homer comes to realize that he isn’t impeccable and…

Although The Epic of Gilgamesh primarily details the exploits and adventures of its title character, the two-thirds god and one-third mortal King of Uruk, Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh’s friend and companion, Enkidu, is also central throughout the course of the epic. In the beginning of the epic, the goddess Aruru fashions Enkidu from clay, so as to create a counterweight against Gilgamesh’s rapaciousness and brutish strength. While Enkidu does initially serve almost as a foil of sorts to Gilgamesh, they…