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In three pages this paper contrasts the heroic protagonists of the anonymously written “Epic of Gilgamesh” and Homer’s “The Odyssey.” Two sources are listed in the bibliography.
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similarities between the protagonists. They were both on journeys as punishment from their gods, were for the most part more focused on themselves than others, and frequently allowed their
tempers get the best of them. However, there are notable differences that should also be considered in order to gain greater appreciation of the works themselves and what the
heroes were intended to represent. First, Gilgamesh and Odysseus were inspired by two completely different cultures at two very different times. For example, Gilgamesh was a product of what
was once the Babylonian culture (in what is now Iraq), and it is believed the anonymous author composed the text on tablets around 2700 B.C. Historians have since discovered
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
the product of the ancient Greek culture that was prevalent in Homers time, between 700-800 years before the birth of Jesus Christ. These differences are noteworthy because the heroes
are reflective of the cultures in which they were created. In the Babylonian city of Sumer, for instance, the culture emphasized the meanings of friendship and death. Gilgamesh
was a solitary soul until he encountered the primitive nature man Enkidu, with whom he formed a true kinship. Enkidus death plunged Gilgamesh into a deep depression, during which
time he constantly worried about his own mortality. After his friends death, the inconsolable Gilgamesh bemoaned in Tablet VIII, "Hear me, O Elders of Uruk, hear me, O men!
I mourn for Enkidu, my friend, I shriek in anguish like a mourner" (Anonymous 70). He fretted in Tablet IX, "I am going to die!--am I not like
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