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When Homer met Phantasia: fiction, epic poetry and entertainment literature in Byzantium

Dr Aglae Pizzone is one of the British Academy’s Newton International Fellows.

• Aglae Pizzone

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Published in British Academy Review, No. 19 (January 2012).

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