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Cover illustration: Establishing a canon for Cycladic marble figurines: the planning of a three-figure group, now in Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum (drawing by Tina Ross). With permission.
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Names: Agut-Labordère, Damien, editor, author. | Versluys, M. J., editor, author.
Title: Canonisation as innovation : anchoring cultural formation in the first millennium BCE / edited by Damien Agut-Labordère, Miguel John Versluys.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] | Series: Euhormos: Greco-Roman studies in anchoring innovation, 2590-1796 ; 3 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | English and French.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022028532 (print) | LCCN 2022028533 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004520257 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004520264 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Civilization, Ancient. | History, Ancient. | Collective memory. | Literature, Ancient—History and criticism. | Canon (Literature)—History—To 1500.
Classification: LCC CB311 .C333 2022 (print) | LCC CB311 (ebook) | DDC 930.1—dc23/eng/20220720
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022028532
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022028533
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ISSN 2590-1796
ISBN 978-90-04-52025-7 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-52026-4 (e-book)
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