ultimately metamorphosed into the spiritual entity, Buddha. Siddharthas search for truth led him away from his familiar foundation of life as a means by which to seek out what

humans; there is no pantheon of gods. In Gilgamesh, there is a pre-existing pantheon which not only is responsible for the creation of the world and humanity, but also interacts

many aspects of contemporary existance -- friendship, desire for immortality, lust, despair, self-awareness -- were as important to ancient humanity as they are in the daily reality of the 21st

detail. (There have been many attempts to reconstruct a replica ark, based on these instructions, which are informative enough to allow a fairly good image of the ark to be

best friend and traveling companion, Enkidu, dies. Gilgamesh is so upset by his friends death that he goes into a great depression. Sorrow was come into my belly. I

up and is coated with hair like an animal (11). A hunter lures Enkidu with a prostitute and eventually Enkidu and Shamhat engage in sexual activity for many nights (11).

successfully "bring back his friend, lift him out of his indifference to human life" (Young-Mason 347). Gilgamesh hears the story of

folktale was based on a real-life king of Uruk, the reason its allure remains timeless is not because of its historical significance or because it is an artifact from a

values used to attach greater meaning to life and the acceptance of the inevitability of death. In order to gain a greater understanding of the Epic of Gilgamesh,

as a result Enkindu is created. In many respects, one could state that both characters are two sides of the same heroic coin. And, as such, both progress psychologically

If anyone needed a friend to set him on the right path, it was Gilgamesh. Because he is part man and part God, Gilgamesh believes he

undergoes are reflected in the story of Heracles, and the ultimate aim of the two heroes is also similar, in the sense that their physical labours are all directed to

Ulysses. Comparison of Gilgamesh and The Odyssey In both stories one can see very similar lifestyles maintained by the primary characters. They are both leaders and while Ulysses

that the protagonist Gilgamesh might have been based on an actual person who presided over the ancient city of Uruk at that time. Odysseus, on the other hand, was

that governs her life also controls the actions associated with her troubled existence; being both underhanded and manipulative, Clytemnestra never dreams she would need to call upon the very depths