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Chapter 8 - From technē to kakotechnia

Use and Abuse of Ancient Cosmetic Texts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2017

By
Laurence Totelin
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. 138 - 162
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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