{"name": "Lionel Casson", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Lionel Casson is Professor Emeritus of Classics, New York University, and the author of *Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World* as well as many other books on ancient maritime history and ancient travel.\" -jacket blurb from *Libraries in the Ancient World*, 2001 (see also <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Casson>Wikipedia</a>)"}, "personal_name": "Lionel Casson", "death_date": "18 July 2009", "birth_date": "22 July 1914", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "remote_ids": {"viaf": "109364942", "wikidata": "Q81203", "isni": "0000000110324410", "lc_naf": "n50034387", "opac_sbn": "RAVV052722", "goodreads": "1374"}, "key": "/authors/OL225584A", "latest_revision": 10, "revision": 10, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-30T19:20:21.421307"}}