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

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

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

in terms of government, society, and the universe (Greer 16). Since there were not historians, per se, chronicling the Sumerian civilization for future scholars and students to ponder, what

The epic was carved onto a serious of clay tablets mysteriously, and its true author remains anonymous (Greer 17). However, a careful reading of these tablets offers considerable perspectives

and oppresses his people harshly" (Hooker). In this he is essentially cruel and arrogant and his people cry out to the gods for help against this leader. They send a

precept behind all these stories is that the seeker in all of us has to wander forth from his or her home and expand his or her horizons in order

of a man but a poor king: he tyrannizes his people, exhausting men in combat and claiming the right to sleep with any woman before her marriage" (Sparknotes). While Gilgamesh