Horsepower and donkeywork: Equids and the ancient Greek imagination

Classical Philology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 185-246

  Griffith, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/511015     Document Type: Review

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