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P a r t i c i p a t i o n a n d O p p o s i t i o n . Yale
University Press: New Haven, CT.
Eric Robertson DODDS. 1951. The Greeks and the Irrational. University of
California Press: Berkeley, CA.
Howard ZINN. 1980. A People's History of the
3-.45 / Sources
United States. Harper & Row: New York, NY.
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