Biographies & Memoirs

Abbreviations

Names of ancient authors and titles of works are abbreviated after H. G. Liddell and R. Scott, A Greek–English Lexicon, 9th edn., rev. by Sir H. S. Jones and R. McKenzie (Oxford, 1940), pp. xvi-xxxviii, or as listed in OCD3 (cited below). For standard reference works, the usual abbreviations are followed, e.g., CAH = Cambridge Ancient History, ed. by J. B. Bury et al., 1st edn., 12 vols. (Cambridge, 1923–39; 2nd and 3rd editions in progress).

ADAB

J. Naveh and S. Shaked, Aramaic Documents from Ancient Bactria, Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum 1.V (London, 2009)

Austin

M. M. Austin, The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest (Cambridge, 1981)

Beloch

K. J. Beloch, Griechische Geschichte, 2nd edn., 4 vols. (Strasbourg, Berlin, Leipzig, 1912–27)

Berve

H. Berve, Das Alexanderreich auf prospographischer Grundlage, 2 vols. (Munich, 1926)

BHAch I

P. Briant, Bulletin d’Histoire Achéménide, vol. i, Topoi suppl. 1 (1997), pp. 5–127

BHAch II

P. Briant, Bulletin d’histoire Achéménide, vol. ii (Paris, 2001)

CAH

Cambridge Ancient History

CAH2

Cambridge Ancient History, 2nd edn.

CDCC

G. Shipley, J. Vanderspoel, D. Mattingly, and L. Foxhall (eds.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization (Cambridge, 200)

CIG

Corpus Inscriptorium Graecarum (Berlin, 1825–1977)

FdX

H. Metzger et al., Fouilles de Xanthos, vol. vi : La stèle trilingue du Létôon (Paris, 1973)

FGrH

F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, vols. i-ii (Berlin, 1923–6); vol. iii (Leiden, 1940–58)

Hammond–Griffith

N. G. L. Hammond and G. T. Griffith, A History of Macedonia, vol. ii: 555–336 BC (Oxford, 1979)

Hammond–Walbank

N. G. L. Hammond and F. W. Walbank, A History of Macedonia, vol. iii: 336–167 BC (Oxford, 1988)

Heckel

W. Heckel, Who’s Who in the Age of Alexander the Great (Oxford, 2006)

HPE

P. Briant, From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire (Winona Lake, IN, 2002)

IG

Inscriptiones Graecae

IGR

Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes (Paris, 1911–27)

ISE

L. Moretti (ed.), Iscrizioni storiche ellenistiche (Florence, 1967–76)

OCD3

Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd edn., rev. by S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth (Oxford, 2003)

OGIS

W. Dittenberger, Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1903–5)

P. Köln

Kölner Papyri (Opladen, 1976–)

P. Oxy

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri (London, 1898–)

RC

C. Bradford Welles, Royal Correspondence in the Hellenistic Period (London, 1934)

RE

Pauly-Wissowa-Kroll, Realencyclopedaedia der classischen

 

Altertumswissenschaft (Stuttgart, 1894–1980)

Rhodes-Osborne

P. J. Rhodes and R. Osborne (eds.), Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404–323 BC (Oxford, 2003)

RTP

P. Briant, Rois, tributs et paysans (Paris, 1982)

SEG

Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (Leiden, 1923- )

SIG3

W. Dittenberger, Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum, 3rd edn., 4 vols. (Leipzig, 1921–4)

Tarn

W. W. Tarn, Alexander the Great, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1948)

Tod

M. N. Tod, A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1933–48)

Journal and Serial Abbreviations

Titles of periodical literature are generally abbreviated in accordance with those listed in L’Année philologique .

AimgA

Antike und Abendland

AAWW

Anzeiger der Österreicheschen Akademie der Wisenschaften in Wien

ABull

Art Bulletin

AC

L’Antiquité classique

AchH

Achaemenid History

AClass

Acta Classica

AFLFB

Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Bari

AFP

Archiv für Papyrusforschung

AHB

The Ancient History Bulletin

AHR

American Historical Review

AJA

American Journal of Archaeology

AJAH

American Journal of Ancient History

AJN

American Journal of Numismatics

AJPh

American Journal of Philology

AK

Antike Kunst

AKG

Archiv für Kulturgeschichte

AM

Ancient Macedonia

AMIT

Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran

AncSoc

Ancient Society

AncW

Ancient World

Annales (HSS)

Annales: histoire, sciences, sociales

ANRW

Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt

AOAT

Alter Orient und Altes Testament

AOS

American Oriental Society

ASNP

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

BCH

Bulletin de correspondance hellénique

BiOr

Bibliotheca Orientalis

BMCR

Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Bullsoc Arch. Alex.

Bulletin de la Société Archéologique d’Alexandrie

CA

Classical Antiquity

C&M

Classica et Medievalia

CISA

Contributi dell’Istituto di Storia Antica

CJ

Classical Journal

CPh

Classical Philology

CQ

Classical Quarterly

CR

Classical Review

CRAI

Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

DHA

Dialogues d’histoire ancienne

EA

Epigraphica Anatolica

EVO

Egitto e Vicino Oriente

G&R

Greece and Rome

GJ

Geographical Journal

GRBS

Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies

HSCPh

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology

IA

Iranica Antiqua

ICS

Illinois Classical Studies

IEJ

Israel Exploration Journal

INJ

Israel Numismatic Journal

JAOS

Journal of the American Oriental Society

JBerlMus

Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen

JCS

Journal of Cuneiform Studies

JDAI

Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts

JHS

Journal of Hellenic Studies

JNES

Journal of Near Eastern Studies

JNFA

Journal of Numismatic Fine Arts

JS

Journal des Savants

LCM

Liverpool Classical Monthly

MAAR

Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome

MDAI(A)

Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (Athen)

MDAI(R)

Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (Rom)

NC

Numismatic Chronicle

OLP

Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica

OLZ

Orientalistische Literaturzeitung

P&P

Past and Present

PACA

Proceedings of the African Classical Association

PAPhS

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society

PBA

Proceedings of the British Academy

PEQ

Palestine Exploration Quarterly

PP

La parola del passato

QS

Quaderni di storia

QUCC

Quaderni urbinati di cultura classica

RA

Revue archéologique

REA

Revue des études anciennes

RF

Rivista di filosofia

RFIC

Rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica

RhM

Rheinisches Museum für Philologie

RIDA

Revue Internationale des Droits de l’Antiquité

RPh

Revue de Philologie

SIFC

Studi Italiani di filologia classica

SOsl

Symbolae Osloenses

StudClas

Studia Classica

TAPhA

Transactions of the American Philological Association

Trans.

Transeuphratène

YClS

Yale Classical Studies

ZA

Zeitschrift für Assyriologie

ZDPV

Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina-Vereins

ZPE

Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik

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