1. Ancient Greek Literature - Epic Heroes, Loss, and Mortalty
It is through the outline of the heroes' lives, their relationships to their heroic partner, the gods, animals, and mere humans, and their reactions to death that Wolff supposes provide this basic definition of man and that the epic medium's pervasiveness in a culture that provides the validity of that definition seems implicit in such a hypothesis. ... Immediately this represents a change in the character of Enkidu, who moves from a wild animal to a human concerned with other humans. ... The gods do not intervene directly, but Enkidu, who is their creation, fulfills his task of prot...
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