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believes, would seal his everlasting fame (Irving 86). The poem championed Beowulfs desire for fame as a badge of honor: "In all ...

original adventure stories; Indiana Jones has nothing on Odysseus, Achilles, Ajax and the rest of the characters who struggled on ...

the criminal justice system, some designed to help inmates, others to keep track of them. This paper discusses a program called "E...

the chariot that Hector bought. . . . Each row was a divan of furred leopardskin. . . . te...

ignorant about its history. He is also a simple fisherman. The conflict in the story predominately revolves around Achille and Hec...

this obvious beast and takes the challenge, severing the Green Knights head, who merely picks up his head, and informs Gawain that...

it clear that the most important societal relationship is between a warrior, the "thane," and his liege lord (Donaldson 32). This ...

on "what all human beings should do if they want to be moral: They should always act in their own self-interest" (Thiroux 37). Ad...

oral tradition, which makes the tales uniquely alive and constantly changing. This paper briefly compares two such epics, the Sund...

I fear death, and now roam the wilderness-- I will set out to the region of Utanapishtim, son of Ubartutu, and will go with utmost...

The controversy over the federal funding of stem cell research is outlined in an article titled "Stem-Cell...

meanings of friendship and death. Gilgamesh was a solitary soul until he encountered the primitive nature man Enkidu, with whom h...

the aid of Fortune herself as a guide, travel to the Fortunate Islands. There, they scale a mountain, fighting a dragon and a lion...

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

himself was portrayed as the incarnate of evil, whose ravenous attacks on King Hrothgars subjects were nothing more than examples ...

for "The Story of Rama" chronicles the heroic saga of Sri Rama, who along with his three siblings Laksmana (or Lakshmana), Bharata...

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...

In the battle, the dragon emerges as the symbol of evil and consequently exists as the monster of this encounter" (King). In this ...

and craft are clear throughout the narrative, but such episodes as her deceiving of the suitors are not considered in the same lig...

king, but not necessarily a good king. Such a man demands fear from his subjects, oppressing them and insisting on his selfish exp...

afterlife, gods and worship, adventure and achievement, and legacy. The gender roles and children depicted in The Epic of Gilgame...

through his loving he begins to see the fragile condition of life itself. However, these ultimate realizations take their time in ...

twenty-five hundred years. Many scholars date the time and place of the recording of Job to the age of the Babylonian Exile, which...

that allows the poem to celebrate or immortalize its national culture (Epic Poetry). The distinguishing characteristics of Homers...

As for mankind, numbered are their days/ Whatever they achieve is but the wind!" (Epic of Gilgamesh 8). When Gilgameshs friend Enk...

holds the Greeks captive in his cave, into allowing them to escape by first blinding his one eye while he sleeps. However, Odysseu...

instead decides they should be dinner. According to Odysseus, "He clutched my companions / and caught two in is hands like squirm...

However, supernatural strength is indicated when he finally does stand. Sundiata instructed that a heavy iron rod should be brough...

an employee of the Company who has become erratic, and bring him home. In so doing, Marlow has to face his own "heart of darkness"...

could live. It was on the broad shoulders of this classical hero upon which the security of society rested. While the hero walke...