Nisus and Scylla: Nisus was the king of Megara and Scylla was his daughter. The problem was that Scylla was in love with King Minos, who was the King of Crete. Crete and Megara were in a war at that time so they couldn't be together. One day Scylla escaped from the palace and went to King Minos with the keys of his fathers castle and told him that she loved him and would betray his father for him. At the end Minos rejects her and she and her father are turned into eagles.
- I dont think there is much relationship between this myth and Gilgamesh considering the two main "topics" of this myth are: betrayal and love. And in Gilgamesh none of these are manifested.
Echo ans Narcissus: Echo was a nymph that was in love with Naricissus. But she could only talk to him if he talked first. But he never did, one day he talked to Echo but rejected her, after she died. Then Narcissus fell in love with himself, thinking it was another person he loved himself and didn't understand why "that other being" didn't talk to him. He died thinking that that person didn't love him.
- I think this myth I can relate it not with Gilgamesh but with human kind. We love who doesn't love us, and don't love the person who really loves us. We are never happy with what we have and want more and more. It is like a vicious cycle in which we are not content.
Meleager and Atlanta: Meleager is a warrior who's destiny is written and since little they said he is going to die young. One day when goes to war, Meleager encounters with Atlanta, a beautiful girl that is going to war too. They love truly in love, but at the end as destiny was written Meleager dies.
- This is a perfect relation to Gilgamesh because as Enkidu Meleager dies. And Gilgamesh and Enkidu ans Meleager and Atlanta are both soul mates and need each other. But at the end sadly one of them has to die.
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