The Dictionary of Classical Mythology
by Grimal, Pierre
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0631132090
- ISBN 13
- 9780631132097
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About This Item
Oxford: Blackwel Reference/Basil Blackwell Limited [0-631-13209-0] 1987. (hardcover) 603pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 4to. Jacket shows some wear, which includes a closed tear and a soft crease at the upper edge; it is otherwise clean and crisp. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. A clean, bright, tight, solid copy, with 40 genealogical tables to explain the complex, sometimes strange connections between the families of the gods and men that have interlocked. A comprehensive, authoritative dictionary of every charcater, divine or human, major and minor, is incliuded in these pages.Illustrations, maps, reference lists..
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- Bookseller
- Spafford Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 127809
- Title
- The Dictionary of Classical Mythology
- Author
- Grimal, Pierre
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0631132090
- ISBN 13
- 9780631132097
- Publisher
- Blackwel Reference/Basil Blackwell Limited
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- This edition first published
- 1986-05
- Keywords
- Mythology, Dictionaries, Legends, Mythology
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