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