AE |
L’Année épigraphique (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1888–) |
Anderson |
G. Anderson (trans.), An Ephesian Tale by Xenophon of Ephesus, in Collected Ancient Greek Novels, ed. B. P. Reardon (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989) |
Betz |
H. D. Betz, The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, 2nd edn (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992) |
BGU |
Aegyptische Urkunden aus den Königlichen (later Staatlichen) Museen zu Berlin, Griechische Urkunden (Berlin, 1895–) |
Campbell |
Brian Campbell, The Roman Army 31 BC–AD 337: A Sourcebook (London: Routledge, 1994) |
Cary |
E. Cary, Dio’s Roman History, with an English translation (New York: Macmillan; London: William Heinemann, 1914), Loeb Classical Library |
CIL |
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (Berlin, 1863–) |
Cohoon |
J. W. Cohoon, Dio Chrysostom, with an English translation (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; London: William Heinemann, 1932), Loeb Classical Library |
Conybeare |
F. C. Conybeare, The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, the Epistles of Apollonius and the Treatise of Eusebius, with an English translation (New York: Macmillan; London: William Heinemann, 1912), Loeb Classical Library |
Daly |
Lloyd W. Daly (trans.), Aesop without Morals: The Famous Fables, and a Life of Aesop (New York: Yoseloff, 1961), quoted in Hansen, Ancient Greek Popular Literature |
Delacy and Einarson |
Phillip H. Delacy and Benedict Einarson, Plutarch’s Moralia, with an English translation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, 1959), Loeb Classical Library |
Gager |
John G. Gager, Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) |
Gallant |
Thomas W. Gallant, Risk and Survival in Ancient Greece: Reconstructing the Rural Domestic Economy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991) |
Hansen |
William Hansen (ed.), Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998) |
Harmon |
A. M. Harmon, Lucian, with an English translation (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; London: William Heinemann, 1921), Loeb Classical Library |
Horsley |
G. H. R. Horsley, New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity: A Review of the Greek Inscriptions and Papyri Published 1986–87 (North Ryde, N.S.W. : The Ancient History Documentary Research Centre, Macquarie University) |
ILLRP |
Attilio Degrassi, Inscriptiones Latinae liberae rei publicae (Firenze: La Nuova Italia, 1957–63) |
ILS |
Hermann Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae (Berlin, 1892–1916) |
ILTun |
A. Merlin, Inscriptions Latines de la Tunisie (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1944) |
IPOstie |
H. Thylander, Inscriptions du port d’Ostie (Lund: C. W. K. Gleerup, 1952) |
Isaac |
Benjamin Isaac, The Limits of Empire: The Roman Army in the East (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd edn, 1992) |
ISIS |
A. Helttula, Le iscrizioni sepulcrali latrine nell’Isola sacra (Rome: Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, 2007) |
Jones |
H. L. Jones, The Geography of Strabo, with an English translation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, 1944), Loeb Classical Library |
Karasch |
Mary C. Karasch, Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808–1850 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987) |
Kilburn |
K. Kilburn, Lucian, with an English translation (New York: Macmillan; London: William Heinemann, 1913), Loeb Classical Library |
Long |
George Long, The Discourses of Epictetus (London: George Bell & Sons, 1877) |
Luck |
Georg Luck, Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Collection of Ancient Texts 2nd edn (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) |
MacLeod |
M. D. MacLeod, Lucian, with an English translation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, 1967), Loeb Classical Library |
Malahide |
Talbot de Malahide, ‘On the Longevity of the Romans in North Africa,’ Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 12 (1883), 441–8 |
M.Chr. |
L. Mitteis and U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde, Juristischer Teil (Leipzig and Berlin, 1912) |
Morgan |
J. R. Morgan (trans.), An Ethiopian Story by Heliodorus, in Collected Ancient Greek Novels, ed. B. P. Reardon (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989) |
Nelson |
C. A. Nelson, ‘Receipt for Tax on Prostitutes,’ Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 32 (1995), 23–33 |
Nutton |
Vivian Nutton, Galen, On Prognosis: Text, Translation, Commentary, CMG V.8.1 (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1979) |
O. Berl. |
Ostraka aus Brussel und Berlin, ed. P. Viereck (Berlin and Leipzig, 1922) |
P. Brem. |
Die Bremer Papyri, ed. U. Wilcken (Berlin, 1936) |
P. Mich. |
Michigan Papyri (Ann Arbor, 1931–) |
P. Münch. |
Die Papyri der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München (Stuttgart, 1986) |
P. Oxy. |
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus, published by the Egypt Exploration Society in Graeco-Roman Memoirs (London, 1898–) |
Paton |
W. R. Paton, The Greek Anthology, with an English translation (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; London: William Heinemann, 1918), Loeb Classical Library |
Perrin |
B. Perrin, Plutarch: Parallel Lives, with an English translation (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; London: William Heinemann, 1916), Loeb Classical Library |
PG |
J. P. Migne, Patrologia Graeca (Paris 1857–66) |
PGM |
Papyri Graecae Magicae, 2 vols., ed. K. Preisendanz, revised by A. Heinrichs (Stuttgart, 1973–4) |
PSI |
Papiri greci e latini, Pubblicazioni della Società Italiana per la ricerca dei papiri greci e latini in Egitto (Florence, 1912–79) |
Robert |
L. Robert, Les gladiateurs dans l’Orient grec (Paris: Champion, 1940) |
Rowlandson |
Jane Rowlandson (ed.), Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) |
SB |
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Aegypten, 1915– |
Waddell |
Helen Waddell, in Ross S. Kraemer, Maenads, Martyrs, Matrons, Monastics: A Sourcebook on Women’s Religions in the Greco-Roman World (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988) |
White |
H. White, Appian’s Roman History, with an English translation (New York: Macmillan; London: William Heinemann, 1912–13), Loeb Classical Library |
Whittaker |
C. H. Whittaker, Herodian: History of the Empire, with an English translation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969; London: William Heinemann, 1969), Loeb Classical Library |
Wiedemann |
T. E. J. Wiedemann (ed.), Greek and Roman Slavery: A Sourcebook (London and New York: Routledge, 1990) |
Winkler |
J. J. Winkler (trans.), Leucippe and Clitophon by Achilles Tatius, in Collected Ancient Greek Novels, ed. B. P. Reardon (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989) |
WO |
U. Wilcken (ed.), Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien (Leipzig and Berlin, 1899) |
Yonge |
Charles Duke Yonge (trans.), The Works of Philo Judaeus, the Contemporary of Josephus, by Philo, of Alexandria (London: H. G. Bohn, 1854–5) |
NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS
Material from a number of my main sources are given from others’ excellent translations as follows, with the permission of the relevant publisher:
Curse tablets: John G. Gager, Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992).
Dorotheus of Sidon: Carmen Astrologicum, trans. David Pingree (Abingdon, MD: Astrology Classics, 2005); original publication in Carmen Astrologicum, trans. David Pingree (Munich: K. G. Saur, 1976).
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Papyri: Roger S. Bagnall and Raffaella Cribiore, with contributions by Evie Ahtaridis, Women’s Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC–AD 800 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006); Jane Rowlandson (ed.), Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Popular literature: William Hansen (ed.), Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1998).
All other translations are my own, except for those attributed to another scholar in this format: ‘/Luck.’ These scholars can be found in the list of Abbreviations on pp. 342–6.