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Chapter Three - History of Writing, History of Rationality

from Part I - Between Myth and Logos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

Manuel Fernández-Götz
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
Dirk Krausse
Affiliation:
State Office for Cultural Heritage Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
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Eurasia at the Dawn of History
Urbanization and Social Change
, pp. 40 - 51
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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