The history written on the classical Greek body / Robin Osborne.

"This book challenges historians of all periods to come to terms with the distortions that they systematically introduce into their work by their reliance on what has been written on paper without looking at what was and was not written on the body. Historians use textual evidence to try to understa...

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Main Author: Osborne, Robin, 1957-
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Physical Description:xv, 260 pages : illustrations
Format: Book

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