Who is this man? (1)

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Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 10.5-14:
Gilgameš was going this way and that, and [ … ] clothed in a (lion)-skin [ … ]. He had divine flesh on [his body], (but) there was woe in [his heart]; [his] face [was like] (that of) one who has travelled far. The alewife suveyed him from a distance, she debated in her mind, she [spoke] a word, with her own self she [took counsel]: ‘Perhaps this man is a mur[derer], someone going into [ … ].’

Homer, Odyssey 6.127-138:
So saying the goodly Odysseus came forth from beneath the bushes, and with his stout hand he broke from the thick wood a leafy branch, that he might hold it about him and hide therewith his nakedness. Forth he came like a mountain-nurtured lion trusting in his might, who goes forth, beaten with rain and wind, but his two eyes are ablaze: into the midst of the kine he goes, or of the sheep, or on the track of the wild deer, and his belly bids him go even into the close-built fold, to make an attack upon the flocks. Even so Odysseus was about to enter the company of the fair-tressed maidens, naked though he was, for need had come upon him. But terrible did he seem to them, all befouled with brine, and they shrank in fear, one here, one there, along the jutting sand-spits.

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Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 10.5-14
Homer, Odyssey 6.127-138

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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