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Betty Radice.
Who’s Who in the Ancient World: A Handbook to the Survivors of the Greek and Roman Classics.
Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977 reprint (previously issued 1973; hardback was 1971).
Series: Penguin Reference Books.
ISBN 0140510559.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Bungay.
Size: 125x193x20mm.
Page count: text 336pp; plates 32pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the covers on this copy are a bit scuffed and discoloured, colours almost completely faded; covers sealed under protective transparent plastic so in general not heavily worn, though a roughened patch on the front, presumably where a sticker has been removed; binding starting to split internally between plates 6 & 7, though no pages are detached; pages yellowed with age; text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 283g.

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Contents: organised alphabetically, includes mythological and historical figures; coverage generally pre-medieval, but extends up to late antiquity.

Introduction: 32pp
Notes: foot of page in intro., oterwise no
Tables: no
Illustrations: 32 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: 2
Genealogies: 2
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 2pp
Index: yes

See also | Classics & classicism |
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