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ʻLive your Greece in mythsʼ: reading the crisis on Athensʼ walls

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ʻLive your Greece in mythsʼ: reading the crisis on Athensʼ walls. / Avramidis, Konstantinos.

Professional Dreamers, 2012. (Working Papers; No. 8).

Research output: Working paper

Harvard

Avramidis, K 2012 'ʻLive your Greece in mythsʼ: reading the crisis on Athensʼ walls' Working Papers, no. 8, Professional Dreamers. <http://www.professionaldreamers.net/?p=2455>

APA

Avramidis, K. (2012). ʻLive your Greece in mythsʼ: reading the crisis on Athensʼ walls. (Working Papers; No. 8). Professional Dreamers. http://www.professionaldreamers.net/?p=2455

Vancouver

Avramidis K. ʻLive your Greece in mythsʼ: reading the crisis on Athensʼ walls. Professional Dreamers. 2012. (Working Papers; 8).

Author

Avramidis, Konstantinos. / ʻLive your Greece in mythsʼ: reading the crisis on Athensʼ walls. Professional Dreamers, 2012. (Working Papers; 8).

Bibtex

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