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Epic poems such as Homer's Odyessey and Iliad, John Milton's Paradise Lost, The Song of Roland, the Sumerican epic of Gilgamesh, Virgil's Aeneid, and Beowulf share common symbols, imagery, and archetypes - human experience is the leitmotif of such works.




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Authored by: Chiron Bradford
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AN EXPLORATION OF PARALLELS IN ANCIENT FLOOD MYTHS

From Gilgamesh to the present day, the world's foundational tales often include an extended period of "water water everywhere." Tracing the influential trends of the oral traditions upon one another seems to inadequately address the omnipresence of this human leitmotif...

From Gilgamesh to the present day, the world's foundational tales often include an extended period of "water water everywhere." Tracing the influential trends of the oral traditions upon one another seems to inadequately address the omnipresence of this human leitmotif...

From Gilgamesh to the present day, the world's foundational tales often include an extended period of "water water everywhere." Tracing the influential trends of the oral traditions upon one another seems to inadequately address the omnipresence of this human leitmotif...

From Gilgamesh to the present day, the world's foundational tales often include an extended period of "water water everywhere." Tracing the influential trends of the oral traditions upon one another seems to inadequately address the omnipresence of this human leitmotif...

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Bibliography, References, and Sources:

1. The Epic of Gilgamesh; Bradford, Chiron, trans.; Houghton Muffler, 2001.
2. The Epic of Gilgamesh; Bradford, Chiron, trans.; Houghton Muffler, 2001.
 

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