The stories concerning Gilgamesh in Sumerian are short and episodic and present no unifying theme, but in the Akkadian versions it appears that the poet has unified these traditional stories into one larger eleven or twelve tablet epic with more unified themes (West 65, Noegel 240). ... Wolff has noted, by looking at the development of characters in Gilgamesh, that where Gilgamesh changes and his nature is affected by the presence and loss of his comrade Enkidu, Enkidu's nature is static (Wolff 1). The nature of Achilles follows a similar pattern based around the presence and loss of his ...

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