In Studying Levi-Strauss, Edmund Leach Concludes That, Because the Story

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Multiple Choice

In studying Levi-Strauss, Edmund Leach concludes that, because the story of Oedipus is so interrelated with other Greek myths, _________________________________________.

• A) they originated about the same time
• B) all Greek myth is a single system
• C) the Greeks were not very imaginative
• D) Oedipus is the personification of several gods

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