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    Two Different Books with Similar Stories The Book of Genesis and The Epic of Gilgamesh have many clear similarities. One major‚ noticeable similarity is that in both stories‚ there are flood legends. There is the legend of Noah and the Ark in The Book of Genesis and the story of Utnapishtim in The Epic of Gilgamesh. In both stories‚ a higher power wants to wipe out the human race and decides to save one person who is then assigned to build an ark to hold himself‚ his family‚ and one of each animal

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    interpreting these pieces as literature‚ stories within The Bible and Tales From Ovid can be perceived as parallels of one another‚ and in a more precise manner‚ prove how Zeus and God act as mirror images of one another. Both myths depict these powerful rulers of the sky in identical patterns most significantly through the tales of creation‚ rise and fall of humanity‚ as well as the great flood. Beginning with Tales From Ovid‚ Hughes represents the world in its premature beginning where in the depths

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    Ovid the Metamorphoses

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    hypocritical. “And I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.”― William Faulkner. Faulkner’s ideology is prevalent in the story The Metamorphoses‚ by Ovid‚ as the poet tells of the god Jupiter destroying all man kind (except for Deucalion and Pyrrha) because of the actions of one‚ Lycaon. Ovid describes Jupiter’s destruction as an effort to protect all the gods who do not live in the heavens. However‚ Jupiter’s actions are not justified in any way presented in the book

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    tale of the ages amongst the two storytellers as well. These similarities and differences allow the deciphering of the tales to hold differences in the value of the ages of mankind. Raising key similarities in the Gold‚ Silver and Bronze Ages both Ovid and Hesiod tell a different meaning on how the ages that precede them affect the rest of mankind. The Heroic and Iron Ages are important in the continuation of both stories‚ the tale of creation and mankind‚ and the view of the world to the Greeks

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    The Art of Love Framing for a Misogynist The poetry of Ovid exemplified in The Art of Love is one of the only examples of the contemporary social behavior exhibited during the time of Rome. Ovid writes about social activities‚ proper style‚ women‚ and how to obtain them. Through Ovid’s perspective‚ there are three different ways to consider a woman. These three views include relating a woman to a game‚ a beautiful treasure‚ and as a means to assert social status. Comparatively‚ Andreas Capellanus

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    the Bible and Gilgamesh I as well as many others grew up listening to the story of Noah and the flood. I remember the length of the flood‚ the dove‚ and the rainbow very vividly. However‚ most people do not realize that the story is told throughout many different cultures and with accounts older than Genesis’s version in the Bible. Although each of the accounts tells of the flood‚ there are many variations to the story. One of the stories can be found in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Although the

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    General information on the Sumarian Epic Gilgamesh (ca. 2000 B.C.E.) The epic developed over a period of nearly a thousand years. It was discovered in the city of Ninevah amidst the ruins of the great royal library of Assurbanipal‚ the last great king of the Assyrian empire. The text is still not completely understood today. We can identify three stages in the epic’s development. The first begins in roughly 2700 B.C.E. when the historical Gilgamesh ruled in Uruk‚ a city in ancient Mesopotamia

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    Genesis

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    Charles Ntumba THEO 200 Professor Stetler Genesis Paper The Book of Genesis is the first story of the Bible. It presents the reader with two different accounts of the world created by God. The two creation stories show the importance of man and woman. It also shows that mankind is the epitome of creation. When people read the creation story‚ they are presented with a conflict between the religious and scientific worlds. If people want different perspectives of the creation story‚ they should

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    The Scales of Balance in Genesis Genesis demonstrates the opposing forces of good and evil and the necessary balance of the two in life. Throughout the text there are constant shifts from one force to the other and God’s inevitable role in bringing stability. Genesis is an effective collection of stories wherein God continually corrects humankind’s transgressions. Creation‚ Adam and Eve‚ Cain and Abel‚ Noah and the Flood as well as the Tower of Babel are all tales in which the inherent evil in

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    Hesiod Versus Ovid

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    world and theogony‚ or the gods‚ and pays specific detail to genealogy (West‚ 1996: 521). Ovid‚ on the other hand‚ was a Roman poet‚ born in 43 BC – the year after the assassination of Julius Caesar and lived during Augustus’s reign. It’s said that his father took him to Rome to become educated in the ways of a public speaker or a politician‚ but instead Ovid used his education to write poetry (Gill‚ 2013). Ovid wrote in a time called the Neoteric period‚ and the goal of the neoteric poets was to revitalise

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