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Dream Interpretation: A Byzantinist Superstition?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

George Calofonos
George Calofonos*
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University of Birmingham, Centre for Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek
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Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , Volume 9 , 1985, pp. 215 - 220
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Copyright © The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 1985

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