Epic of Gilgamesh, Antigone, the Last Socrates and Beowulf

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History: Epic of Gilgamesh, Antigone, the Last Socrates and Beowulf
Abstract
This paper looks at four mechanisms that is; the last Socrates, the epic of Gilgamesh, Antigone, and Beowulf. The paper examines how these mechanisms emulate the social values of their particular culture. In addition, it will reflect on which of the male protagonists is the most interesting, and who is very tricky to relate to. It as well examines the effect of religion on politics. It is divided into two parts with regard of the specified heroes and social values. The assignment is based on evaluation on achievements on made by Gilgamesh, Antigone, Socrates and Beowulf who provides an insight on how they participated in religion and political development. Each of them has their contributions documented herein and how it did contributes to today`s changes which have been implemented over the years in areas of religion and politics.
Introduction
The paper aims at examining about the effect of religion and politics on the Sparta and Athens during the Peloponnessian War period in Greece. Its preparation of study is to put into view the background which religion traversed with Athenian civic strategy throughout that age and then to talk about explicit characteristics of such plan that mirror religious praxis otherwise conviction. The most important historical tip to be obtained from the line of the war among the Peloponnesians is that as soon as it was over, the political control and principal cultural and social condition of Athens were as a rule in history, engrossed by ethos and legislative structure of Sparta. Nevertheless the battle exhausted both Sparta and Athens and stopped Greece`s Golden Age. The turn down of Greece was to a great extent not caused by the religious credence and devotion. The assignment provides districting characters of Antigone as an illusory nature as compared with Socrates who is a historic character. While Beowulf and Gilgamesh are protagonists.
Context
The difference between the battle related classics of Gilgamesh and Beowulf, and the extra emotional related works on the Greeks---Socrates, and the fictional Antigone tells us a lot about the differences in the societies in which the works were written (Damrosch and Pike, p8). The Greeks were philosophers who wanted to create a society founded on cause more willingly than zeal. This is evident in the way Antigone and Socrates live and die. Each and every foremost social principle in Greek are distinguished in the personalities of the Antigone and Socrates. Socrates prefers to take poison more willingly than be disloyal to his values. He in addition desires to respect the decrees of the social order which he is part when he turns down the opportunity he was given to escape. Antigone also emulates the morals of Greek society when she says no to comply with the commands of Creon not burying the father (Damrosch and Pike, p50). She says to Ismene that she will not be permitted by Creon to bury the brother because anyone who defies ought to be stoned to death.
Socrates was an authentic historical character while Antigone was an illusory nature who was not less than a credible public figure; the natures of Beowulf and G...