ENGLISH: IMMORTAL HEROES

FORMAL DEFINITION

●   Is a denotative, exact, explicit, or literal meaning of a word; serious tone, no informal expressions.


INFORMAL DEFINITION

●   Is a connotative; based on ideas, feelings, associations, or

overtones meaning of a word. Is more casual tone with expressions.


  • HERO(male)

  • HEROINE(female


One of the greatest ancient heroes was the demigod and warrior Gilgamesh.

DEMIGOD

  • - being with partial or lesser divine status,

  • such as a minor deity, the offspring of a god and a mortal, or a mortal raised to divine rank.


THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH

  • the writing itself began in northern Iraq around 5000 years ago when it was still the kingdom of Sumer

  • one of the highlights of ancient Sumerian civilization was the invention of the worlds earliest known system of writing CUNEIFORM

  • Sumerian wrote the world first book THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH on twelve clay tablets

  • the bull of heaven bring to the city of uruk the famine

  • in the epic of Gilgamesh the snake steals the magic plant

  • the Tigris and Euphrates allowed for the development of water canals and agriculture