This volume deals with aspects of orality and oral traditions in ancient Greece, specifically literature, rhetoric and s
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This volume deals with aspects of orality and oral traditions in ancient Greece, and is a selection of refereed papers f
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"Hippocratic Recipes" is the first extended study of the pharmacological recipes included in the Hippocratic C
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A generously illustrated selection of John Baines's influential writings on two core areas of ancient Egyptian civi
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