Kate Tempest: A ‘Brand New Homer’ for a Creative Future

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Kate Tempest: A ‘Brand New Homer’ for a Creative Future. / Spiers, Emily.
Homer's Daughters: Women's Responses to Homer in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. ed. / Fiona Cox; Elena Theodorakopoulos. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. (Classical Presences).

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Harvard

Spiers, E 2019, Kate Tempest: A ‘Brand New Homer’ for a Creative Future. in F Cox & E Theodorakopoulos (eds), Homer's Daughters: Women's Responses to Homer in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Classical Presences, Oxford University Press, Oxford. <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/homers-daughters-9780198802587?cc=gb&lang=en&>

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Spiers, E. (2019). Kate Tempest: A ‘Brand New Homer’ for a Creative Future. In F. Cox, & E. Theodorakopoulos (Eds.), Homer's Daughters: Women's Responses to Homer in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Classical Presences). Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/homers-daughters-9780198802587?cc=gb&lang=en&

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Spiers E. Kate Tempest: A ‘Brand New Homer’ for a Creative Future. In Cox F, Theodorakopoulos E, editors, Homer's Daughters: Women's Responses to Homer in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2019. (Classical Presences).

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Spiers, Emily. / Kate Tempest: A ‘Brand New Homer’ for a Creative Future. Homer's Daughters: Women's Responses to Homer in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. editor / Fiona Cox ; Elena Theodorakopoulos. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019. (Classical Presences).

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