Does Atalanta Follow The Hero's Journey

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Does Atalanta follow the Hero's Journey? Or does she just stand out completely? To understand the answer to this question, we have to see if she follows all three stages of the Hero’s Journey. And these are all of those stages that she has to follow. The first stage is called the departure.

In the myth Atalanta, Doc A follows the first stage in the “Hero's Journey”which is departure. When Atalanta is born her father is mad when it's a girl instead of a boy and leaves her on a mountain side for her to die lucky she is rescued by a bear who was sent to by Artemis.When Atalanta’s father tries to kill her she is in the “common day world” when the bear and the goddess rescue her. Atalanta is now in starting the second stage. She has entered into
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