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Part II - Classical Benefactors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2021

Marc Domingo Gygax
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Princeton University, New Jersey
Arjan Zuiderhoek
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Universiteit Gent, Belgium
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Benefactors and the Polis
The Public Gift in the Greek Cities from the Homeric World to Late Antiquity
, pp. 67 - 112
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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