... also both very concerned with their own mortalities, but not quite in the same way. Their comrades, Enkidu and Patroclus are outwardly similar, but the critical differences between Achilles' and Gilgamesh's view of mortality may ultimately lie in the finer details distinguishing the two sidemen. Comparisons between various characters abound in near-eastern Mesopotamian epic and Homeric epics. Many scholars see ... Sumerian texts which most likely reflect the crystallization of earlier epic traditions, and was probably one of the most well-known and influential poems available (West 65)....

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... show that subjects" working models of self and relationships would be related to their attachment style. To test the attachment-theory approach to romantic love, Hazan and Shaver designed a love-quiz as a newspaper questionnaire in the first study, and in the second study they administered the same test to a non-self-selected college-student group, to ensure the reliability of the ... ...

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