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Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Book 18) by Eleni Manolaraki is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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- Author
- Eleni Manolaraki
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH Co. KG
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781299719231
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction
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