CLA204H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Katabasis, Aeneid, Sabines
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Written down in babylonian on twelve tablets. Becomes good friends with enkidu after he is sent down by the gods to fight him. Performs many labours with his companion gilgamesh and enkidu go to the land of the cedars to kill the guardian of the forest, humbaba. Many elements of the heroes quest: divine, extraordinary strength, persecuted by enemies, help from siduri, companion, performs labours, tries to conquer death (fails: andromeda (363-369) Andromeda"s mother boasted that she was more beautiful than poseidon"s daughters, poseidon sends a terrible sea monster against the city cassiopeia and her husband cepheus. Oracle says that the only way to save the city from the monster is to sacrifice the daughter to the monster. Perseus decides that he wants to save her, strikes a deal that if he manages to defeat the sea monster he can marry their daughter. Andromeda has already been betrothed to her uncle phineus.
