Classical Mythology: Sources (thing)

{E2 DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY}

The principal ancient sources used in compiling the Dictionary are listed here. There is no separate table of abbreviations, but there should be no difficulty in elucidating from this list the abbreviations used in the list of references (see each individual node). A few sources which occur only one or twice have been omitted from this list; in such cases a complete reference is given in the body of the write-up. Reference is made here to the editions which are most easily accessible for English readers, and in particular to the Loeb Classical Library wherever it contains an appropriate volume.

• Achilles Tatius; S. Gaselee, Loeb, 1917.
• Aelian; De Natura Animalium. A. Scholfield, Loeb, 3 vols, 1958-9 Varia Historia. M. Dilts, Leipzig (Teubner), 1974.
• Aelius Anstides; see Aristides.
• Aeschines; G. Adams, Loeb, 1919. Scholia, F. Schultz, Leipzig, 1865 (with text).
• Aeschylus; H. Weir Smyth, Loeb, revised edn, 2 vols, 1952-7. Fragments in Nauck, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, edn 2, or in the Loeb edn, vol. II (selected frr. only, edited by H. Lloyd-Jones). Scholia, O. L. Smith, Leipzig (Teubner), 1876- (in process of completion: vols. I, II completed so far); otherwise see A. Wartelle, Bibliographie . . . d'Eschyle 1518-1974, Paris, 1978, for edns of individual tragedies with scholia.
• Ampelius; E. Assmann, Leipzig (Teubner), 1935.
• Anthologia Palatina; W. Paton, Loeb, 5 vols, 1916-18.
• Antigonus of Carystus; see Paradoxographi.
• Antoninus Liberalis; Metamorphoses. M. Papathomopoulos, Paris (Budé), 1968, or in Westermann, Mythographi Graeci (q.v.).
• Apollodorus; Bibliotheca and Epitome. J. Frazer, Loeb, 2 vols, 1921.
• Appian; H. White, Loeb, 4 vols, 1912-1913.
• Apuleius; Metamorphoses. W. Adlington - S. Gaselee, Loeb, 1915.
• Aratus; Phaenomena. A. and G. Mair, Callimachus, Lycophron and Aratus, Loeb, 1921 (see Callimachus, Hymns). Scholia, E. Maas, Berlin, 1898.
• Aristides; Orationes 1-16: F. Lenz - C. Behr, Leiden, 1976; Or. 17-53: B. Keil, Berlin, 1898. Scholia, W. Dindorf, Leipzig, 1829.
• Aristophanes; B. Rogers, Loeb, 3 vols, 1924.
• Aristotle; Poetics. W. Hamilton Fyfe, Loeb, 1927. Historia Animalium. P. Lovis, Paris (Budé), 3 vols, 1964-9; A Peck, Loeb, 1965- (in process of completion: vols I, II completed). Politics. H. Rackham, Loeb, 1932.
• ps. - Aristotle; Mirabiles Auscultationes, see Paradoxograhi.
• Arnobius; Adversus Nationes. A. Reifferscheid, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum IV, Vienna, 1875. Translated by G. McCracken, Westminster (Maryland), 1949.
• Athenaeus; C. Gulick, Loeb. 7 vols, 1927-41.
• Athenagoras; Legatio pro Christianis. W. Schoedel, Oxford, 1972.
• Augustine; De Civitate Dei. G. McCracken and others, Loeb, 7 vols, 1957-72.
• Aulus Gellius; see Gellius.
• Aurelius Victor; De Caesaribus. P. Dufraigne, Paris (Budé), 1975; F. Pichlmayr, Leipzig (Teubner), 1961 (with ps. - Aurelius victor, De viris illustribus and De origine gentis Romanae).
• Ausonius; H. Evelyn White, Loeb, 2 vols, 1919-21.
• Avianus (or Avienus); Fabulae. F. Gaide, Paris (Budé), 1980; J. W. and A. M. Duff, Minor Latin Poets, Loeb, 1934.
• Babrius; Fabulae. B. Perry, Loeb, 1965 (with Phaedrus).
• Bacchylides; R. Jebb, Cambridge, 1905.
• Bode; see Mythographi.
• Callimachus; Hymns. A. Mair, Loeb, 1921 (with Aratus and Lycophron). Fragments (Aetia, Hecalem etc.). C. Trypanis, Loeb, 1958 (with Musaeus); R. Pfeiffer, Oxford, 2 vols, 1949-53 (with scholia).
• Cato; De Agricultura. W. Hopper - H. Ash, Loeb, 1934 (with Varro, De re rustica). Origines (fragments). H. Peter, Historicorum Romanorum Reliquiae I, Leipzig (Teubner), edn 2, 1914.
• Catullus; F. Cornish, Loeb, 1913 (with Tibullus and Pervigilium Veneris).
• Censorinus; De die natali. F. Hultsch, Leipzig (Teubner), 1867.
• Cicero; Various editors and dates, 22 vols in Loeb series. Scholia Bobiensia, H. Hildebrandt, Leipzig (Teubner), 1907.
• CIL = Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, 1863-.
• Claudian; M. Platnauer, Loeb, 2 vols, 1922.
• Clement of Alexandria; Protrepticus. G. Butterworth, Loeb, 1919. Stromateis. O. Stählin - L. Früchtel, Berlin, 2 vols, 1960-70.
• Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta; T. Kock, Liepzig (Teubner), 3 vols, 1880-8.
• Conon; Narrationes. In A. Westermann, Mythographi Graeci (see Mythographi), or in Photius, Bibliotheca (cod. 186), R. Henry, Paris (Budé), 1962, vol. III.
• Demosthenes; J. H. Vince and others, Loeb, 7 vols, 1926-49. Scholia, W. Dindorf, Oxford, 1851 (Demosthenes, vols. VIII-IX).
• Dictys Cretensis; W. Eisenhut, Leipzig (Teubner), 1973. Translated by R. Frazer, Bloomington, 1966.
• Dio of Prusa (Dio Chrysostom); J. Cohoon and others, Loeb, 5 vols, 1932-51.
• Diodorus Siculus; C. Oldfather and others, Loeb, 12 vols, 1933-67.
• Diogenes Laertius; R. Hicks, Loeb, 2 vols, 1925.
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus; E.Cary, Loeb, 7 vols, 1937-50.
  Antiquitates Romanae.
• ps. - Dionysius of Halicarnassus; Rhetorica. In Dionysius Opuscula II, H. Usener - L. Radermacher, Leipzig (Teubner), 1904.
• Dionysius Periegetes; In G. Bernhardy, Geographici Graeci Minores I, Leipzig, 1828 (with Scholia). See also Eustathius.
• Dionysius Thrax (Scholia Vaticana); In A. Hilgard, Grammatici Graeci I.3, Leipzig (Teubner), 1901.
• Dionysius De Avibus; F. Lehrs, Poetae Bucolici et Didactici, Paris (Didot), 1851.
• Dracontius; E. Baehrens, Poetae Latini Minores, V, edn 2, Leipzig (Teubner), 1914.
• ps. - Eratosthenes; Catasterismoi, see Mythographi.
• Erotici Scriptores Greci; R. Hercher, Leipzig (Teubner), 2 vils, 1858-9.
• Etymologicum Magnum; T. Gaisford, Oxford, 1848.
• Euripides; A. Way, Loeb, 4 vols, 1912. Fragments in Nauck, Tragicorum Gracorum Fragmenta, edn 2. Scholia, E. Schwartz, Berlin, 2 vols, 1887-91.
• Eusebius; Chronicon. R. Helm, Berlin, 1956. Praeparatio Evangelica. K. Mras, Berlin, 2 vols, 1903. Oratio ad Sanctos. I. Heikel, Leipzig, 1902.
• Eustathius; Commentaria in Homeri Iliadem at Odysseam. G. Stallbaem, Leipzig, 7 vols, 1825-30. Commentaria in Dionysium Periegetam. In C. Müller, Geographici Graeci Minores II, Paris (Didot), 1861, or G. Bernhardy, Leipzig, 1828 (see Dionysius Periegetes).
• Festus; W. Lindsay, Leipzig (Teubner), 1913.
• Firmicus Maternus; Mathesis. W. Kroll - F. Skutsch, Leipzig (Teubner), 2 vols, 1897-1913. Translated by J. Bram, Park Ridge (New Jersey), 1975.
• Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum; C. Müller, Paris (Didot), 5 vols, 1841-70.
• Fulgentius; R. Helm, Leipzig (Teubner), 1898. Translated by L. Whitebread, Ohio State University Press, 1971.
• Gellius; Noctes Atticae. J. Rolfe, Loeb, 3 vols, 1927.
• Greek Anthology; see Anthologia Palatina.
• Harpocration; W. Dindorf, Oxford, 1853.
• ps. - Heraclitus; De Incredibilibus; see Mythographi.
• Hermias; Commentaria in Platonis Phaedrum. P. Couvreur, Paris, 1901.
• Herodas; W. Headlam, Cambridge, 1922; A. D. Knox, Loeb, 1929 (with Theophrastus, Characters, etc.).
• Herodotus; A. D. Godley, Loeb, 4 vols, 1921-5.
• Hercher; see Erotici Scriptores Graeci.
• Hesiod; H. Evelyn White, Loeb, revised edn, 1936. Fragments, R. Merkelback - M. West, Oxford, 1967. Scholia on Theogony, H. Flach, Leipzig (Teubner), 1876; on Works and Days, A. Pertusi, Milan, 1955.
• Hesychius; Lexicon. M. Schmidt, Jena, 4 vols, 1858-62; K. Latte, Copenhagen, 2 vols, 1953-66 (A - O only).
• Historia Augusta; D. Magie, Loeb, 3 vols, 1922-33.
• Homer; Iliad and Odyssey, A. Murray, Loeb, 4 vols, 1919-25. Homeric Hymns and Epic Cycle, T. W. Allen, Oxford, 1912 (Homer Oxford Classical Text V). Homeric Epigrams, in A. Baumeister, Hymni Homerici Leipzig (Teubner), 1897. Scholia on Iliad, W. Dindorf, Oxford, 4 vols, 1875-7; H. Erbse, Berlin, 1969- (6 vols to date). Scholia on Odyssey, W. Dindorf, Oxford, 2 vols, 1855. See also Eustathius.
• Horace; Odes and Epodes, C. Bennett, Loeb, revised edn, 1927. Satires, Epistles, Ars Poetica, H. Fairclough, Loeb, revised edn, 1929, See also Porphyrio.
• Hyginus; Fabulae. H. Rose, Leiden, 1933, repr. 1963. Translated by M. Grant, Lawrence (Kansas), 1960. Astronomica Poetica, B. Bunte, Leipzig, 1875.
• Isodore; W. Lindsay, Oxford, 2 vols, 1911.
• Isocrates; G. Norlin - L. van Hook, Loeb, 3 vols, 1928-45.
• Joannes Lydus; see Lydus.
• Justin; Epitoma Historiarum Pompei Trogi. O. Seel, Stuttgart (Treubner), edn 2, 1972.
• Juvenal; G. Ramsay, Loeb, 1918.
• Kock; see Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta.
• Lactantius; Institutiones Divinae. S. Brandt, Vienna, 1890 (Corpus Script. Eccl. Lat. XIX. 1).
• ps. - Lactantius Placidus; Commentarii in Statii Thebaida et Achilleida. R. Jahnke, Leipzig (Teubner), 1898 (Statius, vol. III). Narrationes Fabularum Ovidianarum, in H. Magnus, Ovidi Metamorphoseon Libri XV, Berlin, 1914.
• Libanius; R. Forester, Leipzig (Teubner), 12 vols, 1903-23.
• Lucan; scholia in C. Weber, Lucani Pharsalia III, Leipzig, 1831.
• Lucian; A. Harmon and others, Loeb, 8 vols, 1913-67. Scholia, H. Rabe, Leipzig (Teubner), 1906.
• Lucretius; W. Rouse - M. Smith, Loeb, revised edn, 1975.
• Lycophron; Alexandra. A. and G. Mair, Loeb, 1921 (see Callimachus, Hymns). See also Tzetzes.
• Lycurgus; In J. Burtt, Minor Attic Orators II, Loeb, 1954.
• Lydus; De Mensibus. R. Wuensch, Leipzig (Teubner), 1898.
• Macrobius; Saturnalia and Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis, J. Willis, Leipzig (Teubner), 2 vols, 1970. Saturnalia translated by P. Davies, New York, 1969.
• Malalas; Chronographia. L. Dindorf, Bonn, 1831.
• Manilius; Astronomica. G. Goold, Loeb, 1977.
• Marmor Parium; F. Jacoby, Berlin, 1904.
• Mela; Chronographia. K. Frick, Leipzig (Teubner), 1880.
• Moschus; In J. Edmonds, The Greek Bucolic Poets, Loeb, 1912.
• Müller; see Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum.
• Musaeus.; Hero and Leander. C. Whitman, in C. Trypanis, Callimachus, Loeb, edn 2, 1975 (see Callimachus, Fragments).
• Mythographi Graeci; A. Westermann, Brunswick, 1834, or N. Festa and others, Leipzig (Teubner), 1902.
• Mythographi Latini; G. Bode, Scriptores Rerum Mythocarum Latini Tres, Celle, 1834.
• Nauck; see Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta.
• Nicander; A. Gow - A. Scholfield, Cambridge, 1952. Scholia on Theriaca, A. Crugnola, Milan, 1971; on Alexipharmaca. M. Geymonat, Milan, 1974.
• Nonnus; Dioysiaca. W. Rouse and others, Loeb, 3 vols, 1940. Fabulae, in A. Westermann, Mythographi Graeci (see Mythographi).
• Oppian; A. Mair, Loeb, 1928.
• De Origine Gentis Romanae; J.-C. Richard, Paris (Budé), 1983, or in F. Pichlmayr, Aurelius Victor, Leipzig (Teubner), 1961 (see Aurelius Victor).
• Orphic Argonautica; G. Dottin, Paris (Budé), 1930.
• Orphic Hymns; W. Quandt, Berlin, 1955.
• Orphic Fragments; O. Kern, Berlin, 1922.
• Ovid; Metamorphoses. F. Miller, Loeb, 2 vols, 1916 (see also ps.-Lactantius Placidus, Narrationes Fabularum Ovidianarum). Fasti J. G. Frazer, Loeb, 1931. Heroide and Amores. G. Showerman - G. Goold, Loeb, edn 2, 1977. Ars Amatoria, etc. J. Mozley - G. Goold, Loeb, edn 2, 1979. Tristia and Ex Ponto. A. Wheeler, Loeb, 1924.
• Oxyrhnchus Papyri; Vols. I-, London, 1898-.
• Palaephatus; Incredibilia. In N. Festa, Mythographi Graeci, III.2 (see Mythographi).
• Paradoxographi; A. Westermann, 1839; A. Giannini, Milan 1965.
• Parthenius; Erotica Pathemata. S. Gaselee, in J. Edmonds, Longus, Loeb, 1946.
• Paulus; Epitome of Festus, see Festus.
• Pausanias; W. Jones, Loeb, 5 vols, 1918-35.
• Petronius; M. Heseltine - E. Warmington, Loeb, 1969.
• Philargyrius; See Servis.
• Philo of Alexandria; Quod omnis probus liber sit. F. Colson, Loeb, 1941, vol. IX.
• Philoponus; In Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca, XIII-XVIII, Berlin, 1887-1909.
• Philostratus; Vita Apollonii. F. Conybeare, Loab, 2 vols, 1912. Heroicus, C. Kayser, Leipzig (Teubner), 1871, vol. II; L. de Lannoy, Leipzig (Teubner), 1977.
• Photius; Lexicon. R. Porson, London, 1822; S. Naber, Leiden, 1864. Bibliotheca, R. Henry, Paris (Budé), 8 vols, 1959-77.
• Pindar; J. Sandys, Loeb, revised edn, 1937. Scholia, A. Drachmann, Leipzig (Teubner), 3 vols, 1908-27.
• Plato; H. Fowler and others, Loeb, 12 vols, 1914-35. Spurious works in Budé Plato vol. XIII. 3, J. Souilhé, Paris, edn 2, 1962, or Oxford Classical Text, J. Burnet, 1907, vol. V. Scholia, W. Greene, Haverford, 1938.
• Plautus; P. Nixon, Loeb, 5 vols, 1916-38.
• Pliny the Elder; Naturalis Historia. H. Rackham and others, Loeb, 10 vols, 1938-80.
• Plutarch; Moralia. F. Babbitt and others, Loeb, 15 vols, 1927-69 (vol. XVI still in process of completion). Spurious works in vol. VII of the other Teubner edn, G. Bernardakis, Leipzig, 1896. Lives. B. Perrin, Loeb, 11 vols, 1914-26.
• Pollux; Onomasticon. E. Berthe, Leipzig (Teubner), 3 vols, 1900-37.
• Polyaenus; Strategemata. E. Wülfflin - I. Melber, Stuttgart (Teubner), 1970.
• Pomponius Mela; see Mela.
• Porphyrio; Commentarii in Horatium. W. Meyer, Leipzig (Teubner), 1874; A. Holder, Innsbruck, 1894 (repr. Arno 1979).
• Porphyry; De Antro Nympharum and De Abstinentia. A. Nauck, Leipzig (Teubner), 1886. Translated by T. Taylor, Select Works of Porphyry, London, 1823. Questiones Homericae in Iliadem, H. Schrader, Leipzig (Teubner), 1880-2.
• Priscian; In H. Keil, Grammarici Latini II-III, Leipzig, 1855-9.
• Probus (scholia on Virgil); see Servius.
• Proclus; Commentaria in Hesiodi Opera et Dies. In T. Gaisford, Poetae Graeci Minores III, Oxford, 1820. Commentaria in Platonis Timaeum. E. Diehl. Leipzig (Teubner), 3 vols, 1903-6.
• Propertius; H. Butler, Loeb, 1924.
• Ptolemy Hephaestion]; Nova Historiae. In Westermann, Mythographi Graeci (see Mythographi0; or in Photius, Bibliotheca (cod. 190), R. Henry, Paris (Budé), 1962, vol. III.
• Quintus Smyrnaeus; Postomerica. A. Way, Loeb, 1913.
• Res Gestae Divi Augusti; In F. Shipley, Velleius Paterculus, Loeb, 1924.
• Seneca; Tragedies, F. Miller, Loeb, 2 vols, 1917. Epistulae Morales. R. Gummere, Loeb, 3 vols, 1917-25.
• Servius; Commentarii in Virgilium (with Probus and Philargyrius). G. Thilo-H. Hagen, Leipzig (Teubner), 3 vols, 1878-1902. Berne scholia on Virgil, H. Hagen, Leipzig (Teubner), 1867 (repr. Hildesheim 1967).
• Sextus Empiricus; R. Bury, Loeb, 4 vols, 1933-49.
• Silius Italicus; J. Duff, Loeb, 2 vols, 1934.
• Solinus; T. Mommsen, Berlin, 1895.
• Solon; Fragments in J. Edmonds, Elegy and Iambus I, Loeb, 1931.
• Sophocles; F. Storr, Loeb, 2 vols. 1912-13. Fragments, R. Jebb-A. Pearson, Cambridge, 3 vols, 1917. Scholia, P. Papageorgiou, Leipzig (Teubner), 1888.
• Statius; J. Mozley, Loeb, 2 vols, 1928. For scholia, see ps.-Lactantius Placidus.
• Stephanus of Byzantium; L. Hostein and others, Leipzig, 1825; A. Meineke, Berlin, 1849 (one vol. only).
• Stobaeus; K. Wachsmuth - O. Hense, Berlin, 5 vols, 1884-1912.
• Strabo; H. Jones, Loeb, 8 vols, 1917-32.
• Suda; A. Adler, Leipzig (Teubner), 5 vols, 1928-38.
• Suetonius; Vitae Caesarum. J. Rolfe, Loeb, 2 vols, 1913-14.
• Tacitus; Historiae and Annales. C. Moore-J. Jackson, Loeb, 4 vols, 1925-37. Agricola, Germania, Dialogus. M. HUtton and others, Loeb, revised edn, 1970.
• Tertullian; F. Oehler, Leipzig, 3 vols, 1853.
• Theocritus; J. Edmonds, The Greek Bucolic Poets, Loeb, 1912. Scholia, K. Wendel, Leipzig (Teubner), 1914.
• Theophrastus; Historia Plantarum. A. Hort, Loeb, 2 vols, 1916.
• Thucydides; C. Smith, Loeb, 4 vols, 1919-23. Scholia, K. Hude, Leipzig (Teubner), 1927.
• Tibullus; In F. Cornish and others, Catullus, Tebullus, Pervigilium Veneris, Loeb, 1913, see Catullus.
• Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta; A. Nauck, Hildescheim, 2nd edn. with supplement by B. Snell, 1964.
• Trogus; see Justin.
• Tzetzes; Commentaria in Lycophronis Alexandram. E. Scheer, Lycophronis Alexandra II, Berlin 1908. Historiarum Variarum Chiliades. P. Leone, Naples, 1968. Antehomerica, Homerica, Posthomerica. F. Lehrs, Paris (Didot), 1840. Allegoriae Iliadis. J. Boissonade, Paris, 1851. Commentaria in Iliadem. In G. Hermann, Draco de metris, Leipzig, 1812, or in G. Bachmann, Scholia in Homeri Iliadem, Leipzig, 1835-8. Commentaria in Hesiodi Theoganiam. In T. Gaisford, Poetae Graeci Minores III, Oxford, 1820, or P. Matranga, Anecdota Graeca III, Rome, 1850.
• Valerius Flaccus; J. Mozley, Loeb, 1934.
• Valerius Maximus; K. Kempf, Leipzig (Teubner), 1888.
• Varro; De Lingua Latina. R. Kent, Loeb, 2 vols, 1938.
• Velleius Paterculus; F. Shipley, Loab, 1924.
• Virgil; H. R. Fairclough, Loeb, 2 vols, edn 2, 1930. For scholia see Servius.
• Westermann; see Mythographi.
• Xenophon; Various editors and dates, 8 vols in Loeb series.
• Zenobius Epitome. In E. Leutsch - E. Schneidewin, Paroemiographi Graeci I, Güttingen, 1839.
• Zonaras; Lexicon. J. Tittmann, Leipzig, 2 vols. 1808.