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When banned marathoner Rita Jeptoo’s story is written and tested by Vladimir Propp’s principle, the Morphology of the Folktale, it could make for a compelling case of one the god’s raised to heroic status before being destroyed.
And for the fans of Greek Tragedy in Kenya, Jeptoo’s case could top the charts, for in the Greek tragic plays, “When a god plans harm against a man, he first damages the mind of the man he is plotting against.”
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