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Metaphor in Greek Myth

For shits and giggles I had put this paper up on Academia.edu. You can pick it up there if you like. It was written in community college. I enjoyed working on it. It’s not especially deep, but looking back I do see my “unique perspective” starting to shine through.

It’s a popular paper and I don’t even know why.

Here it is, reworked because some of those sentences had me scratching my head, with a couple of new references thrown in to spice up the flavor.

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