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A 5 page paper which examines the validity of the statement: Gilgamesh, the civilized king of Uruk, is a “heroic” character, while Enkidu, his counterpart, is rather “primitive” and only achieves greatness of heroic proportion after becoming civilized. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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carved by an anonymous person or persons on a series of tablets (the actual number is still being disputed by archeologists and anthropologists, but the general consensus is that there
were eleven tablets in all) some 3,000 years before the birth of Jesus Christ. However, it is not the still unknown author or authors that matter; it is the
significance of the text itself that is most worthy of consideration and detailed analysis. For the contents of these tablets have provided historians with an amazing glimpse of Sumer,
particularly how men made the transition from barbarism (in the character of Enkidu) to civilization (in the character of Uruks King Gilgamesh), the moral foundation of which was cemented by
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,
the student who is writing about this text should strive to analyze the following statement: Gilgamesh, the civilized king of Uruk, is a "heroic" character, while Enkidu, his counterpart, is
rather "primitive" and only achieves greatness of heroic proportion after becoming civilized. In order to tell its story, the epic form, which features the exploits of a heroic protagonist,
is used. Although it was Homer who popularized this literary form with his poems "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey," the Epic of Gilgamesh is believed to be the earliest
representative of the style, having been composed over two thousand years before Homer made it his own. The plot of an epic typically involves the heros efforts to fulfill
his civic duties by valuing the well being of others over his own, and his relentless pursuit of honor and victory, which would grant him a kind of immortality (Abusch
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