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Take old urine and slag iron

Simon Goldhill

  • Magic in the Ancient World by Fritz Graf

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Simon Goldhill, the author of Foucault’s Virginity, is a reader in Greek literature and culture at Cambridge, and a fellow of King’s College.

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