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Adrienne Mayor,The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy(Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010), XXII + 448 pp.

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Book ID
113097575
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
59 KB
Volume
18
Category
Article
ISSN
1073-0508

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