The following abbreviations are used in the text and in the glossary below:
BCH Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique. Paris.
FGrH F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. Berlin and Leiden,
1923-.
Fornara C. W. Fornara, Translated Documents of Greece & Rome, vol. 1: Archaic Times to the End of the Peloponnesian War, 2nd edn. Cambridge, 1983.
IC M. Guarducci, ed., Inscriptiones Creticae Opera et Consilio Friderici
Halbherr Collectae. Rome, 1935.
ID Inscriptions de Delos. Paris, 1926-.
IG Inscriptiones Graecae. Berlin, 1873-.
IvO W. Dittenberger and K. Purgold, eds., Inschriften von Olympia. Berlin, 1896.
Milet Milet: Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen und Untersuchungen seit dem Jahre 1899. Berlin, 1906-.
ML R. Meiggs and D. M. Lewis, A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century BC, rev. edn. Oxford, 1988.
PMG D. Page, Poetae Melici Graeci. Oxford, 1962.
POxy. Oxyrhynchus Papyri. London, 1898-.
SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. Leiden, 1923-.
In the following list of sources, an asterisk refers to the Loeb Classical Library
Series, published by Harvard University Press, which offers original texts in
Greek or Latin with English translations on facing pages. Note, however, that since all translations in this book are the author’s, they will often vary slightly from those to be found in the Loeb series.
*Aelian
*Aeneas Tacticus
*Aeschines
*Aeschylus
*Alcaeus
Anaxandridas
*Andocides
Antiochus
Antipatros of Magnesia
*[Apollodorus]
*Archilochus
*Aristophanes
*Aristotle
*Arrian
*Athenaeus
*Bacchylides
Callisthenes
*Cicero
Conon
*Diodorus of Sicily *Diogenes Laertius *Dionysius of Halicarnassus Ephorus
Etymologicum Magnum
Eumelus
Eusebius
*Frontinus Hecataeus of Miletus
Hellanicus of Mytilene
*Herodotus
*Hesiod
Hesychius
Rhetorician and writer, 170-235 CE. HM = Historical Miscellany.
General and military treatise writer, mid-fourth century. Orator, ca. 397-ca. 322.
Tragedian, 525-456.
Lyric poet, (?) early sixth century. Greek Lyric, vol. i. Historian, late third/early second century. FGrH no. 404.
Orator, ca. 440-ca. 390. Minor Attic Orators, vol. i. Historian, late fifth century. FGrH no. 555. Historian, mid-fourth century. FGrH no. 69. Mythographer, first/second century CE.
Iambic and elegiac poet, (?) mid-seventh century. * Greek Iambic Poetry.
Comic poet, late fifth/early fourth century. Philosopher, 384-322. AC = Athenian Constitution; NE = Nicomachean Ethics; Pol. = Politics.
Historian, second century CE.
Writer, late second century CE.
Lyric poet, fifth century. *Greek Lyric, vol. iv. Historian, fourth century. FGrH no. 124.
Roman statesman and writer, 106-43. Mythographer, late first century/early first century CE. FGrH no. 26.
Historian, late first century.
Biographer, (?) third century CE.
Rhetorician and historian, late first century. RA = Roman Antiquities.
Historian, 405-330. FGrH no. 70.
Lexicon, (?) eleventh century CE.
Epic poet, (?) seventh century.
Historian, theologian, and chronographer, ca. 260340 CE. Chron. = Chronica.
Roman politician and military theorist, ca. 30-104 CE. Genealogist and ethnographer, early fifth century. FGrH no. 1.
Chronographer and historian, late fifth century. FGrH no. 4.
Historian, ca. 484-425.
Epic poet, (?) early seventh century. Th. = Theogony; WD = Works and Days.
Lexicographer, (?) fifth century CE.
Iambic poet, (?) mid-sixth century. *Greek Iambic Poetry. Epic poet, (?) early seventh century. II. = Iliad; Od. = Odyssey.
*Hipponax
*Homer
*Homeric Hymns
*Isaeus
*Isocrates
Justin
Kleidemos
*Livy
*Lycurgus
*Lysias
*Mimnermus of Colophon
Nicolaus of Damascus
Parian Marble
*Pausanias
Pherecydes
Philochorus
*Phocylides
Photius
Phylarkhos
*Pindar
*Plato
*Plutarch
Pollux
Polyaenus
*Polybius
*Sappho
[Scymnus]
*Semonides
*Simonides
Seventh/sixth centuries.
Orator, ca. 420-350.
Orator, 436-338.
Epitomizer, (?) third century CE.
Historian, mid-fourth century. FGrH no. 323. Roman historian, late first century/early first century CE.
Statesman, ca. 390-ca. 325. * Minor Attic Orators, vol. ii. Orator of Sicilian origin, resident in Athens, early fourth century.
Elegiac poet, (?) late seventh century. * Greek Elegiac Poetry.
Historian and philosopher, late first century. FGrH no. 90.
Chronicle, mid-third century. FGrH no. 239. Historian and geographer, mid-second century CE. Mythographer, fifth century. FGrH no. 3.
Historian, fourth century. FGrH no. 328.
Elegiac poet, (?) mid-sixth century. *Greek Elegiac Poetry.
Byzantine commentator, ninth century CE.
Historian, third century. FGrH no. 81.
Lyric poet, 518-438. Isthm. = Isthmian Odes; Nem. = Nemean Odes; Ol. = Olympian Odes; Pyth. = Pythian Odes.
Philosopher, 429-347. Hipp. = Hipparchus; Prot. = Protagoras.
Philosopher and biographer, first/second century CE.
Cam. = Life of Camillus; Lyc. = Life of Lycurgus; Lys. = Life of Lysander; Mor. = Moralia; Num. = Life of Numa; Pel. = Life of Pelopidas; Per. = Life of Pericles; Sol. = Life of Solon; Thes. = Life of Theseus. Rhetorician, second century CE.
Rhetorician, mid-second century CE. Strat. = Stratege-mata.
Historian, 200-ca. 118.
Lyric poetess, early sixth century. *Greek Lyric, vol. i. Periegete, first century.
Iambic and elegiac poet, (?) late seventh century.
* Greek Iambic Poetry.
Lyric and elegiac poet, ca. 556-468. *Greek Lyric, vol. iii.
Historian, (?) third century. FGrH no. 310. Geographer, (?) third century CE.
Sokrates of Argos
Solinus
*Solon
Suda
*Strabo
Synkellos, George
*Theognis
Theopompus
*Thucydides
Timaeus
*Tyrtaeus
*Xenophanes
*Xenophon
Elegiac poet and statesman, early sixth century. * Greek Elegiac Poetry.
Lexicon, tenth century CE.
Geographer and historian, 64-(?)21 CE.
Monk and chronicler, eighth/ninth centuries CE. Elegiac poet, (?) sixth century. * Greek Elegiac Poetry. Historian, mid-fourth century. FGrH no. 115. Historian and general, late fifth century.
Historian, 356-260. FGrH no. 566.
Elegiac poet, (?) mid-seventh century. * Greek Elegiac Poetry.
Elegiac poet and philosopher, (?) late sixth century.
*Greek Elegiac Poetry.
Historian and general, ca. 428-ca. 354. Anab = Anabasis; CA = Constitution of the Athenians; CL = Constitution of the Lacedaemonians; Hell. = Hellenica; Mem = Memorabilia.
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