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I do not think the shapes of the Greek myths are parallel to stories told about real people. The Greek gods and goddesses are in very seemingly human situations, but in my opinion, they are not telling stories with the same emotional tenor as living people. Who can say what they actually "represent" or "are," but the Greeks were not attached to them as people. I think they were holders of cultural shapes. When you interpret the story as truly human, I think you get a muddy, nonsensical, Game of Thrones kind of lurid narrative. This was NOT at all the Greek style.

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