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Heraclitus said “We can never step into the same river twice, for different water is ever flowing” (12). The river which Heraclitus refers to, is a metaphor for time. Time continues on regardless of life, always changing. Although it may seem impossible to go back in time – impossible to step into the same river – there are times when moments in time seems to repeat themselves throughout history. Ovid refutes this maxim through the use of a common storyline throughout several of his stories. Many of his tales depict some sort of interaction between a god and a human in a way that usually results in the human doing something to upset the god and getting punished for it by being turned into something like an animal or plant. For example, Arachne

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