Women represent knowledge, wisdom and temptations. They also have the power to create, ruin and destroy. There are a lot of goddesses and women in these stories, Gilgamesh, The Iliad, and the Oedipus Rex. These women affect the lives of these men positively and negatively. The arguments that occur in these stories by the women are instigated by their power, personal behaviors, and emotions that affect the events and situations that occur in the stories. In Gilgamesh, there are two women who portray wisdom, and learning. One is Shamhat; she is a temple prostitute. Shamhat was sent to mellow the wild-man Enkidu who the Sumerian gods created to confront Gilgamesh of his bad behaviors. “Uruk complain to the Sumerian gods about Gilgamesh overbearing behavior, and so the gods create the wild man Enkidu to confront Gilgamesh” (1.34). Shamhat drew Enkidu closer to her, “Six days, seven nights was Enkidu aroused, flowing into Shamhat” (1.42.186). Enkidu and Shamhat had sex, this sexual intercourse turned Enkidu into a civilized human and handsome young man. “You are handsome, Enkidu you are become like a god, why roam the steppe with wild beasts? Come, let me lead you to raptured Uruk” (1 42.200-203). Shamhat convinced Enkidu that he do not belong to the forest he belongs to a place where civilized men lives, Enkidu accepts the offer to go to Uruk. After all what Shamhat had done for Enkidu transforming him into a real man, he was not appreciative. He turned around and curses her “May your purple finery be expropriated, may filthy underwear be what you are given, because you diminished me, an innocent, Yes me, an innocent, you wronged me in my steppe” (VII-68.82-85). Enkidu did not realize that Shamhat was preparing him for his trials ahead, Shamash hears Enkidu curse Shamhat the harlot and made him realize that all she did was to prepare him for the future, and turned him into a great hero “O Enkidu, why curse Shamhat the harlot, who feed you bread, fit for a god, who poured you beer, fit for a kin