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''Epic of Gilgamesh'' is a story about friendship and the always present human wish to be immortal. The wish is wrapped around with the sad idea that a human cannot fulfill it. In the works of the Sumerians and Homer gods have faults and are similar to humans but they are immortal. In the Babylon-Sumerian […]

"One Thousand and One Nights" is an Arab book of stories that contains legends, stories, anecdotes and others. There are many stories written in verse and characterized like art. There are many dialogues and monologs, Turkish loanwords and archaism. All of the stories are bound by the Emperor Shahryar and Scheherezade. Shahryar, the ruler of […]

The seven stories of Sinbad the Sailor are descriptions of his journeys. They are all similar but still different. The stories were told to the ruler Shahryar by Scheherezade. One all of the journeys Sinbad was convinced he'll die but his faith in Allah kept him alive. He always said that every journey was his […]

The medieval Spain was divided into few smaller countries, and the Arabs ruled one of them. War was an everyday thing there. Sometimes the citizens would fight with each other, and sometimes they would stand united against the Arabs. All of that circumstances created this epic poem or epopea. In Spain, as well as other […]

In the medieval times epic poems were transferred from generation to generation by mouth. They were formed as longer stories in verses that described historic events. In this case we have a Spanish historic event. The history is here represented on a Christian and moral way following the knight virtues that can be found in […]

The Song of the Nibelungs is a German epic from the knight era and it is based on German history. It was even named the German Iliad and the cause of that is that the song contains myths and history. It was discovered by J.H. Obereit in 1775 in the castle Hohenems where he found […]