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Not Always To The Swift But To The Quick

Robert Temple THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS: LITERATURE, VOLUME 1 1901-1926; VOLUME II 1927-1961; VOLUME III 1962-1987 edited by Frank N. Magill Salem Press, USA, distributed through......

Three Centuries Of Decline

F. W. Walbank ALEXANDER TO ACTIUM: THE HELLENISTIC AGE by Peter Green Thames & Hudson, £35, pp. 970 T he three centuries from Alexander the Great to the defeat of Antony and......