According to Greek mythology, Prometheus was a Titan God who was spared imprisonment due to the fact that he chose not to fight in the war waged against the Olympians. ... Prometheus shaped and molded man from the mud beneath his feet and the Goddess Athena breathed life into his clay creations. ... Shelley called her readers to pinpoint connections between two great figures such as Victor Frankenstein's monster and the mythological Titan God Prometheus. ... Likewise in the Greek myth, Prometheus also gives life to his creations and just like Victor he molds them into what he believes to ...

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Gilgamesh is described as two-thirds god and one-third human, which marks him out as a special kind of character who exists in relationship with both the divine world and the mortal world (Gilgamesh 1.145) The king of Uruk is not apparently present in the story of Gilgamesh, and Peleus is far away from Troy at Phthia. ... The first event involves a journey to the mythical cedar forest to defeat the monstrous Humbaba, who is described by Ninsun as a wild thing, repugnant to the god Shamash (Gilgamesh 3.54). ...

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