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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"The Iliad" (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. ... It is written in Ancient Greek language. The time and place where the book was written is unknown, but probably it was written at mainland Greece, around 750 B.C. ... It is written around 20 B.C...

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