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contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning." Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. * Life is a tragedy fo...

all too suddenly succumbed to temptation and became the gatekeeper of Hell -- a place of consequence where one goes whose choices ...

lost natural state, at which point Shamhat offers to take him to the city where the joys of "civilization shine in their resplende...

Epic of Gilgamesh. Who was Gilgamesh? According to Biblical scholars who have researched ancient scrolls, Gilgamesh was a ...

Oedipus story we have one that seems to offer us the belief that through intellectual pursuit we can somehow avoid the inevitable,...

In five pages this paper examines how innocence is corrupted in a literary comparison and contrast of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bo...

it would seem. Socrates agrees for he sees that by having such an argument with Euthyphro he may find a better way to plead his ow...

The Epic of Gilgamesh, composed about 2000 BC and found inscribed on 12 tablets at Nineveh, is the earliest known epic. The Epic...

we will discuss two stories involving journeys -- the ancient Babylonian story of Gilgamesh, and Voltaires Candide. Written abou...

In five pages the religious views of the Sumerians as represented in the Epic of Gilgamesh are contrasted and compared with contem...

author does not present stories of his political maneuverings or military battles. Instead, the story is told about a singular ma...

In 5 pages this paper considers the significance of the Great Flood story retelling in the Epic of Gilgamesh and in the Book of Ge...

among four children in his family. The father was an intelligent, religious man, a hard-working storekeeper and an important leade...

In five pages this paper explores the homosexual or bisexual tendencies as revealed in his relationship with Enkidu in the Epic of...

In five pages this paper examines how the concepts of life and death as regarded by the ancient Mesopotamian peoples are reflected...

In six pages this report discusses how the beliefs and philosophies of the ancient culture of Mesopotamia are reflected in The Epi...

millennium BC, but probably existed in much the same form many centuries earlier" ("Gilgamesh," gilgamesh.html). Gilgamesh tell...

In nine and a half pages this paper considers how social values are reflected in the ancient literary works Phaedo, Euthyphro, Cri...

of the people of Sumer" (Greer 17), as represented by King Gilgamesh of Uruk. It is also an excellent historical tool which can b...

This 10 page paper examines the way writers have treated women in mythology. The writer examines The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Metamo...

the many delights of civilization, and thus showing Enkidu this type of pleasure is important (PG). Enkidu himself however sees i...

In five pages the African epics Kemet, Afrocentricity, and Knowledge by Molefi Kete Asante and Sundiata An Epic of Old Mali by D....

of self-centeredness. The problem is simple: Mankind has completely lost his reverence that once existed toward one another, an e...

Forrest gave us a clear view of the concepts of loyalty and honesty between friends regardless of the turns of circumstance or the...

In eight pages this paper discusses the epic's glorification of violence in an analysis that also considers gender roles, human na...

In this essay consisting of five pages the argument is presented that the friendship between these heroes in Homer's 'The Iliad' s...

honorable combat and murders Ither by throwing a javelin into Ithers eye (Ash). A true knight would never have indulged in such a ...

present Beowulf as a young hero, who is called upon by his fathers old friend King Hrothgar of Geatland, to defend his subjects ag...

his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...

Ithaca and kept him away from his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. Cast adrift on a ship with only his crewmembers for compa...