The gods decide to provide him with a mate, to keep him in check So they make Enkidu from clay. He is part man, part animal, and runs wild in the forest as Gilgamesh does in the city He is tamed by a temple harlot, and makes for the city. Here he joins Gilgamesh in a vastly destructive wrestling bout. They buddy up - Hollywood fashion - and create more havoc among Uruk's enemies The gods are outraged. On this day Jesus, the crucified Jew, lies dead; on this day the Jewish people is born. Today is holy to both Jews and Christians, but for very different reasons.

Yet, argues John Kennedy, both contain echoes of the older Epic of Gilgamesh ON THIS day two great festivals of Christianity and Judaism coincide Today is both Holy Saturday and the Feast of the Passover. He died on his 42nd birthday.John Patrick Lonergan (John Grey), design consultant and environmentalist: born 17 March 1956; married 1995 Catherine Maxwell Stuart (one daughter); died Innerleithen, Peeblesshire 17 March 1998.. Catherine succeeded her father in 1990 not only as Laird of Traquair but as the brewer of "Traquair Ale", and the two of them successfully relaunched the image of the brewery, the smallest in Scotland. Grey was completely at home in the world of all those who regard Traquair in its beautiful setting on the banks of the Tweed as Scottish rural life at its most meaningful and creative.Grey began his fight against lung cancer not long after the birth of his daughter Isabella three months ago, and despite his illness proved himself to be a loving and attentive father. It was focused on the historic castellated house of Traquair, which had been the royal hunting lodge of the Stuarts. With an Irish father, Grey combined the European personality of a Latinised Celt with that of a sophisticated Londoner.His schooldays at a Sussex comprehensive school were short-lived. He brought into being that blend of business experts and environmentalists which governmental bureaucrats rarely consider.

The council is now a source of inspiration to all those concerned with the maintenance of world-wide fish stocks, bringing together Unilever and the World Wildlife Fund to help certify and maintain ecological standards.Born in 1956, Grey inherited the dark Hispanic good looks of his mother, Magda, who was born into one of the old families of Cadiz, which had intermarried with an Italian family from Genoa. In 1995, having amicably parted company with Halpen, Grey, Vermeer, he accepted the onerous role of chairman and managing director of Media Natura.Over the last two years he had implemented new and creative communication programmes for organisations as varied in their needs and aspirations as Amnesty, Water Aid, Intermediate Technology, Calor Gas, Sainsbury's Environmental Department, the Co-operative Retail Society and the National Provident Institution. To each he gave his unstinting energy, optimism and poetic imagination. His legacy lies in such logos as that of the environmental group Plantlife, which is in the shape of a leaf-form wrapping itself around the globe - the perfect image for a group set up to preserve rare plants and recreate lost countryside habitats in Britain.One project in which he played a key role was the setting up in 1996 of the Marine Stewardship Council.

In 1987, in his 32nd year, he co-founded Halpen, Grey, Vermeer, a design consulting company which specialised in corporate identity and communication. He was a poet in a modern style of classic realism, with an immense variety of themes and an inexhaustible inventiveness of tone, expressed with a passionate lucidity that set him apart from the majority of younger French poets taking the easy way out in empty linguistic obscurity.Anatole Bisk (Alain Bosquet), poet, novelist, translator: born Odessa, Soviet Union 28 March 1919; married 1954 Norma Caplan; died Paris 17 March 1998.. JOHN GREY personified the image of design consultant as environmentalist as artist. He compiled authoritative anthologies of contemporary American and French poets, and his own work as a poet appeared in a 900-page collected 1995 edition, Poesies completes (1945-1994): Je ne suis pas un poete d'eau douce ("I am no milk-and-water poet").Indeed, Alain Bosquet's was an original voice working in a broad French literary tradition of lyrical contestation. Among the distinguished translators of his work into English were his friend Samuel Beckett, Edouard Roditi and Lawrence Durrell. In return, Bosquet translated Durrell's poems and a selection of work by the great Serbo-Croat poet Vasko Popa, who reciprocated with a selection of Bosquet's earlier poetry published in Belgrade in 1958.Bosquet also wrote fine literary reviews and appreciations of countless younger poets, as well as substantial essays on Saint-Jean Perse, Pierre Emmanuel, Eugene Ionesco, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.

Others included the Prix Max Jacob for Deuxieme Testament (1959), the Grand Prix de la Poesie de l'Academie Francaise for Quatre testaments at autres poemes (1967) and the Prix Goncourt de la Poesie for Le Tourment de Dieu (1987).Many of these volumes were translated into almost every European language. In 1980, this cosmopolitan wanderer was finally naturalised as a French citizen.Alain Bosquet's literary career was launched, and he became the author of a score of books of poetry. Langue morte won the first of his many awards, the Prix Guillaume Apollinaire, in 1951. Bosquet again put on uniform, this time with the American army, and saw service in Texas, California and Maryland before being shipped to Northern Ireland in December 1943.Nineteen forty-four saw him in London at General Eisenhower's headquarters with the task of examining the German coastal defences in Occupied France, with a view to opening the Second Front. He debarked on the Normandy beaches, then moved with the American troops through northern France and into Germany where he was one of the first to enter the Buchenwald concentration camp.His next post was as liaison officer with the quadripartite control commission in Berlin. Nineteen forty-five saw the publication of his first collection, La Vie est clandestine. In 1947 Bosquet founded a German-language review, Das Lot ("The Sounding Line"), of which Gottfried Benn was to say that it was the determining factor in the revival of poetry in Germany.In 1951 he was installed more or less permanently in Paris, where he worked with Albert Camus on Combat and started contributing reviews and essays to Le Monde, Figaro and the Nouvelle Revue Francaise.