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... literary tradition . Writing , to judge from Akkadian orthographic peculiarities , was very early borrowed from the Sumerians . By Old Babylonian times ( c . 19th century BC ) , the liter- ature in Akkadian , partly under the influence ...
... literary tradition . Writing , to judge from Akkadian orthographic peculiarities , was very early borrowed from the Sumerians . By Old Babylonian times ( c . 19th century BC ) , the liter- ature in Akkadian , partly under the influence ...
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... literary style and a musical texture suitable for incorporation into a new theatrical unity . The essential literary materials had begun to appear in Italy in such chivalresque epics as Lodovico Ariosto's Orlando fu- rioso ( published ...
... literary style and a musical texture suitable for incorporation into a new theatrical unity . The essential literary materials had begun to appear in Italy in such chivalresque epics as Lodovico Ariosto's Orlando fu- rioso ( published ...
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... literary Nietzsche's literary estate and , dominated by greed , pro- duced collections of his " works " consisting of discarded notes , such as Der Wille zur Macht ( 1901 ; The Will to Power ) . She also committed petty forgeries ...
... literary Nietzsche's literary estate and , dominated by greed , pro- duced collections of his " works " consisting of discarded notes , such as Der Wille zur Macht ( 1901 ; The Will to Power ) . She also committed petty forgeries ...
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