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One True Life: The Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditions by C. Kavin Rowe

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One True Life: The Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditions C. Kavin Rowe ebook
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Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300180121
Page: 344

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