In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh wants to gain immortality and sets out to see Utnapishtim, the only man who has ever been granted immortality. The idea of ​​immortality could not be granted to Gilgamesh, but Utnapishtim offered him a plant found at the bottom of the apsu. A serpent snatched the plant of eternal youth from him and he returned to Uruk. Gilgamesh said to Urshanabi: "Climb the walls of Uruk, Ur-Shanabi, and walk around." He continued to say, “A square mile is a city, a square mile is an orchard, a square mile is a clay pit, as is the open ground of the temple of Ishtar. Three square miles and open terrain comprise Uruk. Gilgamesh was so adamant about living forever after the death of his significant other, that only upon returning home did he realize that the only true kind of immortality is to be remembered for what one has accomplished. Achilles was the best warrior during the Trojan War. He was angry at the actions of his peers, who wanted to go home and never look back. Yet they were his mother's words: "For my mother, the silver-footed goddess Thetis, tells me that a double fate leads me to the fate of death: if I remain here and fight for the city of the Trojans, then I lose and my return home, but my fame will be imperishable; but if I return home to my dear homeland, my glorious fame will be lost, but my life will last long, nor the