Genre Savvy/Literature: Difference between revisions

* ''[[The Epic of Gilgamesh (Literature)|The Epic of Gilgamesh]]'': Gilgamesh is smart enough not to sleep with Ishtar, who is goddess of love by night, but goddess of war by day.

** Of course, it's really a 'heads I win, tails you lose' situation; Ishtar does ''not'' [[Woman Scorned|take rejection well]], and spends the rest of the tale trying to screw Gilgamesh over in ever more creative ways. And very often succeeding.