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Sunday, September 08, 2013
Marina Warner in this week's Times Literary Supplement
Review by Marina Warner in this week's Times Literary Supplement of Edith Hall's new book on the cultural history of Iphegenia in Tauris.
Like everything by Marina Warner, it is worth reading several times.
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