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... king has certain prescriptive rights , for example , a special claim on spoils of war , but it would be rash to suppose that the kings were monarchs with restricted privileges such as those enjoyed by the kings of Sparta in Classical ...
... king has certain prescriptive rights , for example , a special claim on spoils of war , but it would be rash to suppose that the kings were monarchs with restricted privileges such as those enjoyed by the kings of Sparta in Classical ...
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... king to the strong structure of the Spartiate community , all these had reduced the Spartan kings to something like Aristotle's definition of them as hereditary generals for life.1 It is roughly true to say that the Greek world of the ...
... king to the strong structure of the Spartiate community , all these had reduced the Spartan kings to something like Aristotle's definition of them as hereditary generals for life.1 It is roughly true to say that the Greek world of the ...
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... Kings and strong claimants to the throne are not quickly forgotten . One may still find villagers who , without a written record , can trace back their descent through a century and a half to an undistinguished great - grandfather . In ...
... Kings and strong claimants to the throne are not quickly forgotten . One may still find villagers who , without a written record , can trace back their descent through a century and a half to an undistinguished great - grandfather . In ...
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir Charles Webster | 15 |
Walter de la MARE AND THE TRAVELLER Warton Lecture on English | 23 |
THE OLDEST SLAVONIC TRADITION OF BYZANTINE MUSIC By Carsten | 37 |
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