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Chapter 11 - Living According to the Seasons

The Power of parapēgmata

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2017

By
Gerd Graßhoff
Edited by
Marco Formisano  and
Philip van der Eijk
Marco Formisano
Affiliation:
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Philip van der Eijk
Affiliation:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing , pp. 200 - 216
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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