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Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque
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This article is published in American Journal of Philology.The article was published on 1970-07-01. It has received 376 citations till now.read more
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Greek Laughter: A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity
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Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis supports the Indo-European steppe hypothesis
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From Brideprice To Dowry in Mediterranean Europe
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Persuasion, Compulsion and Freedom in Plato's Laws
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Euboulia in the iliad
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