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Conversations: Can You Smell the God In the Air?! Epiphanies in Antiquity w/ Gillian Glass

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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The Power of Epiphany in Storytelling

The power of epiphany as a rhetorical literary device is that it has authority, both in the story world for the characters and in the real world for the audience listening to that story. It either reinforces values, morals, institutions that exist, or it justifies a change in values, morals and institutions. We cannot take what he's learning, just can't. We'll never accept it. If everything is in front of you, you'd just have to actually listen, and then everything would be so much better. Love thatr i love techin that part of the story, the m know what to do withtit. They're like, but noknong, yes, ruth

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