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A 4 page paper which examines the position of Gilgamesh, in the Epic of Gilgamesh, and Odysseus, from Homer’s Odyssey, as heroes. No additional sources cited.
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are, however, quite different in terms of what makes them a hero or a heroic symbol. The following paper examines elements of each hero and each story as they involve
aspects of heroism. The paper finishes with a comparison and contrast of the two individuals. Gilgamesh In The Epic of Gilgamesh we are at first presented with a
man whom his people fear. These people plead to the gods to help them from this tyrant, a man who takes any woman he chooses and essentially oppresses the people.
"Gilgamesh does not leave a son to his father.... Is Gilgamesh the shepherd of Uruk-Haven, is he the shepherd. ...bold, eminent, knowing, and wise! Gilgamesh does not leave a girl
to her mother(?)" (The Epic of Gilgamesh). The gods hear and one goddess does something about it, creating the creature/man known as Enkidu. Prior to Gilgameshs knowing Enkidu he is
a tyrant, a man who is mostly god, whom the people fear. In this he is not hero, despite grand deeds he has apparently done. His deeds, however, always seem
to be self serving. He is a powerful and perhaps curious man but not a man who has ever really done anything for another human being. As such he is
a hero in strength and abilities, not in actions and deeds. With Enkidu, however, he finds a soul mate. He no longer seeks out the women and uses them and
if he oppresses the people we do not know about it for he and Enkidu go off on their adventures. Gilgamesh will do anything for Enkidu and in that
he is perhaps a hero for he puts another above himself. But, in all honesty, this is the only manner in which one could truly argue that he was a
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