فوق لیسانس مترجمی زبان انگلیسی

"As Russian formalists believe, in literature nothing is created new but recreated after many recreations." (Blanc, 1991: 10) [my translation] Nothing is written new when the new thing was written in the past. It seems as if Gilgamesh has affected many epics that were written after it. The well-known epic of Hercules is deemed to overlap the epic of Gilgamesh in many cases: "When he was eighteen he killed the Cithaeron lion". (Eliade, 1992: 100) [my translation] Killing of lions was a trait for every hero in many epics. Gilgamesh as the first epic ever known is identified to have exerted its effect in this regard. The following parts are of the epic of Gilgamesh (Monshizadeh, 1383: 81):   

"If you are Gilgamesh, who killed the Guardian,

Who destroyed Humbaba who lived in the Cedar Forest,

Who slew lions in the mountain passes,

Who grappled with the Bull that came down from heaven, and

Killed him" [my translation]