Connections

The three myths I read were Atalanta, Apollo and Daphne, and Diana and Actaeon. I honestly can’t find a direct relationship between any of these three myths and the epic of Gilgamesh. These three myths all showed the terrifying power of the figure of women. They were all based on men falling in love with them and ending in pain and death. And if you put it this way, in Gilgamesh there was a similar situation though it happened the other way around. The goddess Ishtar, daughter of Anu, falls in love is rejected by Gilgamesh and as a punishment, she sends the bull of heaven to kill him. But once again I see that the power of women is fearful and lethal and its worth fighting against.