During the heyday of the solar-myth paradigm it was a norm to interpret every singlemythic character and his or her actions in terms of either the annual or diurnal solarmovement. With the paradigm’s inevitable demise, the body of evidence that was centralto its approach was relegated to a more peripheral position by the adherents ofsucceeding paradigms that successively dominated the field. This has left a significantnumber of references to solar phenomena in ancient text on the margins of scholarlyinterest, including those that appear in the central texts of both Mesopotamianand Greek traditions. This paper focuses on a re-evaluation of the presence of solarresonances in a section of the Epic of Gilgameš that contains clear and explicit referencesto the sun and its course. At the same time, following in the footsteps of manyearlier scholars, it offers a parallel analysis of a section of Odysseus’ itinerary of a similarcharacter. This re-evaluation has shown that the respective sections of the heroes’itineraries are partly structured on an analogy with solar movement, but that thedominant use of solar references in these texts is more haphazard and reflects morecircumscribed intentions of the texts’ authors.