A Weaker God

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And if some god batters me far out on the wide blue water, I will endure it, keeping a stubborn spirit within me, for I have already suffered much (93-94). In the beginning of the epic, the gods sought to control and/or destroy Gilgamesh by creating an antihero to defeat him. When Aphrodite stepped in his way, he stabbed the goddess, and she fled to Olympus in order to cry on her mother’s lap: “Oh my wound! Diomedes hit me! that(sic) bully! because(sic) I was trying to save my own son Aineias, my darling favourite! This war of the Trojans has become a war of Achaians against gods (64)!” In response, her mother, Dione speaks of past things humans have done to the Olympians: “Make the best of it my love. He sent waves to alter the course of the her and many times attempted to dash the hero against the rocks or drown him. Consequently, the war continued to drag on. [had not] Hermes stole him away, when he was already in great distress from his cruel prison (65). One could argue, though, that Odysseus did give in to the goddesses by bedding them. A major weakness of the pantheist structure was the discord among the gods. The very premise of the Epic of Gilgamesh involved a hero who nearly equaled the gods. When Poseidon sent Odysseus’ ship in the wrong direction, Aeoleus gave the hero a bag which encaptured every counterproductive wind. Sometimes the gods only wanted honest opinions from the humans. The realized that the gods were not all-powerful. When Odysseus fell into the sea after departing from Calypso’s island, Ino, a sea nymph, gave him an enchanted scarf to aid his directional sense. Zeus fell to slumber, and the gods were able to further influence the war. Eventually, Zeus, the s trongest god, put a stop to the intervention.

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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)

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