رحلة البطل في ثلاث ملاحم قديمة

Abstract EN

The hero has a unique presence in the consciousness of humanity, which has always valued the values of heroism and promised the hero a symbol of salvation from a very unhappy reality.

It is not strange that the intensity shown in the literary manifestation of the hero’s journey in world literature in general, and in ancient epics in particular; The epic deals with national heroics, and includes events in which fiction and reality are mixed.

This study focuses on the hero’s journey in three ancient epics that are famous in the literary world, namely: Gilgamesh, The Iliad, and The Odyssey.

Although these epics belong to two different civilizations, the similarities in them between the myths of the heroes seem remarkable, and this is what we follow through analysis, standing on the structure and composition of the hero's journey, as they have, so to say, a comprehensive global pattern, although they appeared in groups or Individuals who do not have any direct cultural relations with others