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Gods, demigods and demons an encyclopedia of greek mythology, bernard evslin, oct 30, 2012, juvenile fiction, 236 pages. Bernard evslin was born in new rochelle, new york, and went on to attend rutgers university evslin spent the first part of his career as a playwright and screenwriter. Bernard evslin 19221993 was a bestselling and awardwinning author known for his works on greek and other cultural mythologies. Pdf mythology, as a field of scientific research, is a set of.
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