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Uva-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Space in archaic Greek lyric: city, countryside and sea Heirman, J.G.M. Publication date 2012 Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): Heirman, J. G. M. (2012). Space in archaic Greek lyric: city, countryside and sea. Vossiuspers - Amsterdam University Press. http://nl.aup.nl/books/9789056297008-space-in- archaic-greek-lyric.html General rights It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulations If you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: https://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. UvA-DARE is a service provided by the library of the University of Amsterdam (https://dare.uva.nl) Download date:30 Sep 2021 BIBLIOGRAPHY490 A.W.H. Adkins, Poetic Craft in the Early Greek Elegists, Chicago 1985 ---, Moral Values and Political Behaviour in Ancient Greece: From Homer to the End of the fifth Century, London 1972 F.R. Adrados, Liricos griegos: elegiacos y yambógrafos arcaicos (siglos VII-V a.c.), Barcelona 1981 (first edition 1956) ---, ‘Origen del tema del nave del estado en un papiro de Arquiloco’, Aegyptus 35 (1955), 206-210 K. Allan - K. Burridge, Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language, Cambridge 2006 R.J. 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