Comparing Achilles, Agamemnon And Gilgamesh

Achilles, Agamemnon and Gilgamesh

Both Achilles and Agamemnon were central figures who led the United Greek armed forces during the Greek Trojan war (Coray et al., 2016). Agamemnon was the commander-in-chief of the Archaean army while Achilles was Achilles was one of the Archaean army’s greatest and most respected warriors. Achilles mother was the immortal Nereid Thetis and his father was, Peleus, king of the Myrmidons and was mortal. Agamemnon the other hand was the son of the royal King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae. While both warriors have different characters, there is absolutely no doubt that they were great warriors who were very strong.

Agamemnon showed lack of emotion and trust in his army when they headed out for the Trojan war. Being the Greek army’s commander-in-chief, he was respected but not liked by his subjects. He is depicted in the Iliad as a person who tried to get something for himself in any given situation regardless of the costs. Homer, Dawkins, and Homer (2017) point out that

When young, Patroclus is reported to have killed another child in anger over a game of dice. His father subsequently gave him to Peleus, Achille’s father where he grew with Achilles and acted as Achille’s henchman. A relationship that draws comparison to that of these two men is that of Enkidu and Gilgamesh. According to the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, Enkidu was created by Aruru, the goddess of creation, to help get rid of Gilgamesh’s arrogance. Both Enkidu and Patroclus were completely raised differently. While Enkidu is considered a wild man ignorant of the human society and raised by animals, Patroclus is raised by humans and leads a normal human life (Homer, Pope, & Flaxman, 2015). Enkidu only interacted with other humans and civilization after being bedded by Shamhat. He became king Gilgamesh’s close companion after competing in a wrestling match with