Dionysus returns: Contemporary tuscan trancers and euripides’ the bacchae

The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 170-185

  Baldini, Chiara ^a  

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203847879     Document Type: Chapter

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