Josephus

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The Great Leveler...

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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

by Walter Scheidel

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by Platón

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Paradise Lost

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by John Milton

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