Epics are long poems narrating the adventures of a hero and don’t have a specific author due to being passed around so much. The Epic of Gilgamesh and Song of Roland are two famous epics told years after they started and really impacted future literacy. The fact that they are both epics, which are necessarily about a hero's voyage, they have some similarities of what they are trying to portray. These two stories were created in different eras, so they do have differences in concepts. Time and their cultural aspects are big factors that the famous epics can be compared with.
The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Song of Roland, once a story told person to person, is now a legendary Epic worth wasting time on. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a Sumerian Epic, which was written roughly about 5,000 to 6,000 years ago. While, The Song of Roland is an Epic that formed during the Middle Ages, about 800 years ago. The Song of Roland and The Epic of Gilgamesh has many similarities but their character has the most in common. They are also diverse because they obtain a different theme.
In The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Book of Genesis, there are a couple of similarities that they both have in common. For example, they both discussed the story about the God(s) sending the flood to the city in order to destroy the whole civilization, while leaving some of righteous humans alive: Uta-napishti from The Epic of Gilgamesh and Noah from The Book of Genesis. Despite the difference in their backstory, these two characters are both given the same role as the one who tries to recreate their own society with animals and resources that they brought with on the Ark. Another similarity is that they both send out ravens outside of the Ark to make sure the water is subsided and the land is dried after the flood.
Within the flood stories of Gilgamesh and the Bible, there exist both similarities and differences. One commonality is the destruction of mankind. In Gilgamesh, the gods unite to attempt and terminate mankind. Enlil ordered a flood to come and swipe all of mankind. Consequently, Ea betrays the gods and told Utnapishtim their scheme.
Physical vs. Spiritual Roles of Women Both the Bible and Gilgamesh have similarities between men using females for their own benefit, but are different because the female power roles have opposite meanings when it comes to sex. Adam and Eve were created in the Book of Genesis in the Bible and it shows its relevance because Adam was created first demonstrating the power man has over woman (Gen. 2). This is important because Eve was created to help Adam giving Adam control over her. Men having control over woman is demonstrated throughout the Bible mostly their own purposes. This means that women have to give in to their husbands when they demand sex which, is different than how sex is used in the poem of Gilgamesh.
There was seven days of Creation, and with each day God created Earth. On the first day, God created heaven and earth. God then speaks light into existence and goes on to separate light from darkness. "And God divided the light from the darkness. " On this day he named light "day" and dark "night."
The story of Gilgamesh and the book of Genesis from the Hebrew Bible, are two historical religious stories in which tell the tales of the destruction of mankind that was made by the Gods/God. This destruction was caused by a massive flood in which both higher powers from both stories send to erase all human life form from the earth. In both stories a higher powers save an individual from the flood to continue humanities existence for a "fresh start." But some may question, But why? Did they hate the humans that much?
The Epic of Gilgamesh, and The Song of Roland have similar characteristics and behaviors in each of their stories, but the epics derive from Iran, and France and were written hundreds of years apart from each other. The heroes from each epic display, or shows a superhuman or godlike form that sets them apart from the rest. But just like them they also had an opponent or antagonist who similarly equal to them. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh has attained this certain power from the gods of being two-thirds god and one-third man.
There were many reasons why the Ancient Egyptians did not survive without the Nile River. Some of these reasons may have been as it provided a method of transportation, it fulfilled their daily needs and provided farming. The Nile was thought to be God like, because of all the resources it supplied with. When it came to farming, the Nile provided a tremendous assistance. For example; by helping them grow crops and harvest crops.
In the “Epic of Gilgamesh” and “The Odyssey” by Homer, all the gods are portrayed as being very near, and having a very close relationship with the mortals. The authors showed this through their interactions, even though each epic portrayed a unique mode of interaction between the gods and the mortals. For instance, in the “Epic of Gilgamesh,” this interactions are mostly indirect, whereas in Homer’s Odyssey, they are direct. Another thing the authors tried to show is that the gods are limited in their powers, at least some of them. The authors portrayed this through the gods favoring or disfavoring certain mortals.
People of Ancient Mesopotamia viewed their gods as being unreliable like their rivers. Life was likely better for Egyptians during this period because they did not have to worry as much about survival, whereas peoples
The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Bible have a few similar events and historians think that they may refer to the same event. The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Bible share a similar event, the flood, and a similar character, the serpent. Though there are still several distinctions between the two stories. The Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh both contain a serpent as one of the less significant characters.
In conclusion we can affirm that Egypt is without doubt a great civilization that is worth to be studied in depth, importance they gave to the scientific advances of that time make us see the magnitude of this civilization, it’s importance and understand why these vestiges are so studied that until today are found and
In the following readings, Genesis and The Epic of Gilgamesh, women are perceived as subjects towards men. For example, in Genesis the first woman to be created by God is Eve and in The Epic of Gilgamesh the harlot Shamhat. Both characters are subjected to obey men in a point of their stories because it is the norm of the society of which these texts are written in. Even though both texts were written in the same part of the world, modern middle east, Genesis is the creation story of earth that was written in modern day middle east during Babylonian Exile of the 6th century BC, while The Epic of Gilgamesh was, however written in a different time, dating back to c. 2000 BC. Genesis was written before The Epic of Gilgamesh, which means that the norm of women being submissive towards men originated from Genesis to The Epic of Gilgamesh.
The Epic of Gilgamesh is the first epic poem to be written in ancient West Asia. It was written around the third millennium BCE in Mesopotamia by Sumerian people (Spodek, 127). The epic is based on actual an historical figure, a Sumerian king who reigned the city-state of Uruk around third millennium BCE. Ashurbanipal, the last Neo-Assyrian king who was literate, built a great library in his capital and preserved 20,000 tablets including the earliest complete version of The Epic of Gilgamesh (Spodek, 128). Sumerian attitudes towards gods, friendship, and the story of the great flood are revealed throughout the epic.
