Summary of sources
The main sources, which are listed as appropriate at the end of each entry, are
given here with references to available translations. Most are to be found in Loeb
editions, published by Harvard University Press (Cambridge Mass. USA) and Heinemann
(London). Translations are set opposite the text in green bindings for Greek authors and
red for Latin. Facing texts and translations can also be found in the Aris and Phillips
series (Warminster), and translations of the main Classical authors are in the expanding
Oxford World Classics series (OWC) or Penguin (Harmondsworth). Where no translation
is given, there is usually a French version in the Budé series, otherwise texts (including
the crucial volumes of Mythographi Graeci) will be found in the original languages in the
Teubner series, and most are in Oxford Classical Texts. The Loeb for Hesiod is
particularly useful, for, in addition to his Theogony and Works, it includes Homeric
Hymns, Catalogue of Women and fragments of summary from the Epic Cycle
(Titanomachy, Oedipus, Thebais, Epigoni, Cypria, Aethiopia, Little Iliad, Sack of Ilium,
Returns, Telegony). Scholia refers to comments (informative and critical) written in the
margins, between lines or at the end of the manuscripts of ancient authors; editors of texts
mention them where significant. There are also the three main ancient dictionaries:
Hesychius Lexicon, the anonymous Etymologicum Magnum and the Suda.
Aelian
Aeschylus
Antoninus
Apollodorus
Apollonius
Aristophanes
Augustine
Catullus
Cicero
Diodorus
Diogenes
Dionysius
Eratosthenes
Euripides
Gellius
Herodotus
On the Nature of Animals (NA), Historical Miscellany (VH) Loeb.
Agamemnon, Choephoroe (Libation Beares), Eumenides, Persians,
Seven against Thebes, Suppliants, and Prometheus (a play which
may not be by Aeschylus but which is included among his works)
Loeb, OWC, Penguin.
Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses trans F. Celoria, London
1992.
Library, Epitome Loeb, OWC.
Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica Loeb, OWC, Penguin.
Birds, Clouds, Frogs, Peace, Pluto Loeb, Penguin, Aris and
Phillips.
De Civitate Dei, Loeb.
Poems Loeb, OWC, Penguin.
De Natura Deorum (ND) Loeb, OWC; Tusculan Disputations
(Tusc) Loeb, Aris and Phillips.
Diodorus Siculus, book 4, (Mythical History of Greece), Loeb.
Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers Loeb.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae Loeb.
ps-Eratosthenes Catasterismoi in T. Condos Star Myths (Phanes
MI 1997).
Alcestis, Andromache, Bacchae, Cyclops, Electra, Hecuba, Helen,
Heraclidae, Heracles, Hippolytus, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia in
Tauris, Medea, Orestes, Phoenissae, Suppliants, Trojan Women
Loeb, OWC, Penguin.
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae Loeb.
History Loeb, OWC, Penguin.
Hesiod
Homer
Horace
Hyginus
Juvenal
Livy
Lucian
Lucretius
Manilius
Nonnus
Ovid
Pausanias
Pindar
Plato
Pliny the Elder
Plutarch
Propertius
Quintus of Smyrna
Seneca
Servius
Sophocles
Statius
Strabo
Suetonius
Theocritus
Tibullus
Valerius Flaccus
Varro
Vergil
Theogony, Works and Days,Loeb (with Shield of Heracles), OWC,
Penguin.
Iliad, Odyssey Loeb, OWC, Penguin
Homeric Hymns (to various gods and goddesses) Loeb (under
Hesiod).
Epistles, Epodes, Odes, Satires Loeb, Penguin.
Fabulae tr M Grant (Kansas 1960).
Astronomica in T. Condos Star Myths (Phanes MI 1997).
Satires Loeb, Penguin.
History of Rome Loeb, Penguin.
Dialogi Deorum, Dialogi Mortuorum, Verae Historiae, Loeb.
De Rerum Natura Loeb, OWC, Penguin.
Astronomica Loeb.
Dionysiaca Loeb.
Amores, Ars Amatoria, Heroides, Metamorphoses Loeb, OWC,
Penguin.
Descriptions of Greece Loeb, Penguin.
Isthmian, Nemean, Olympian, and Pyhian Odes Loeb, Penguin.
Cratylus, Ion, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Republic, Symposium, Timaeus,
in Plato Complete Works ed J. M. Cooper, (Indianapolis: Hackett
1997).
Natural History (NH) Loeb.
Parallel Lives, Parallel Stories, Moralia Loeb.
Poems Loeb, OWC, Penguin.
(Q Smyrnaeus) Posthomerica Loeb.
Tragedies Loeb, Penguin.
Commentary on Vergil (Latin only).
Ajax, Antigone, Electra, Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Philoctetes,
Trachiniae Loeb, OWC, Penguin.
Achilleis, Thebaid Loeb.
Geographia Loeb.
Lives of the Caesars Loeb.
Bucolica Loeb.
Poems Loeb, Penguin.
Argonautica Loeb.
De Lingua Latina (LL) Loeb.
Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid Loeb, OWC, Penguin.