(Italicized names are the titles of works by these authors cited in this volume.)
Antoninus Liberalis C2 CE Greek mythographer, Metamorphoses (‘Transformations’). Appian C2 CE Greek historian, Mithridatic Wars.
Arrian C2 CE Greek historian, Anabasis.
Berossus C3 Babylonian scholar (writing in Greek), Babyloniaca.
Cicero C1 Roman orator and philosopher, Verrine Orations, De divinatione.
Ctesias C4 Greek historian, Persica.
Curtius (Quintus Curtius Rufus) C1 CE Roman historian, History of Alexander. Diodorus Siculus C1 Greek historian, Bibliotheke (‘Library’).
Ephorus C4 historian, Historiae.
Eusebius C3—4 CE Greek chronicler and biblical scholar, Chronicles.
Hecataeus C6—5 Greek geographer and mythographer; fragments of geographical and mythographical works survive.
Hellenica Oxyrhynchia Two sets of C2 papyrus fragments found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.
Herodotus C5 Greek historian, Historiae.
Hesiod C7 Greek poet, Theogony (‘Genealogy’).
Hierocles' Synekdemos C5(?) CE list of cities of the eastern Roman empire.
Homer C8 Greek epic poet, Iliad and Odyssey.
Homeric Hymns Greek poems (probably of C7 date) composed in the epic metre, by unknown authors, honouring various deities.
Josephus C1 CE Jewish historian, Against Apion, Jewish Antiquities.
Justin C2, C3, or C4 CE Roman historian, Epitome (i. e. abridged version) of the Historiae Philippicae (‘Philippic Histories’) of Pompeius Trogus.
Livy C1 BCE—CE Roman historian, Ab urbe condita libri (‘Books from the Foundation of the City’).
Menecrates of Xanthus C4 Greek historian, Lykiaka (‘Lycian Matters’).
Ovid C1 BCE—CE Roman poet, Metamorphoses.
Pausanias C2 CE Greek travel writer, Description of Greece.
Pliny the Elder C1 CE Roman encyclopaedist, Naturalis Historia.
Plutarch C1—2 CE Greek philosopher and biographer, Lives of Alexander, Artaxerxes I, Cimon, Pericles, Solon.
Polyaenus C2 CE Greek rhetorician, Strategemata (‘Stratagems’).
Polybius C2 Greek historian, Historiae.
Pomponius Mela C1 CE Roman geographer, Chorographia (‘Description of Regions’).
Pseudo-Scymnus Fragment of a C1 geographical composition (periegesis), associated with the name of the C2 Greek geographer Scymnus.
Ptolemy C2 CE Greek scholar (at Alexandria), author of many works on mathematics, astronomy, and geography.
Stephanus of Byzantium C6 CE Greek scholar, Ethnica.
Strabo C1 BCE—C1 CE Greek geographer, Geographia.
Tacitus C1 CE Roman historian, Annals.
Theopompus C4 Greek historian; fragments of historical works survive.
Thucydides C5 Greek historian, History of the Peloponnesian War.
Virgil C1 Roman poet, Aeneid.
Vitruvius C1 Roman architect and engineer, De architectura.
Xenophon C5—4 Greek soldier and writer on many topics (notably philosophy and history), Agesilaus, Anabasis, Cyropaedia, Hellenica.
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