Abbreviations

Editorial abbreviations

c.

circa (about or approximately, used for dates)

ed., eds

edited by

ed. pr.

editio princeps (the first edition of an inscription, papyrus or manuscript)

F, FF

Fragment, Fragments

flor.

floruit: flourished; active during

no., nos

number, numbers

praef.

preface

svsvv

sub vide, see under

trans.

translated by

Abbreviations of Ancient Sources

Adamnan

(c. AD 624–704) De locis sanctis (On the Holy Places)

Ael.

Aelian (c. AD 165/170–230/235)

Hist.

Varia historia (Hercher, R. (ed.), De natura animalium, Varia historia, epistolae, fragmenta, Leipzig, 1864–66)

Nat. An.

De natura animalium (On the Nature of Animals)

Ael. Tact.

Aelian the Tactician (second century AD) (Köchly, H. & Rustow, M. (eds), De libris tacticis, Leipzig, 1885)

Akropolites

George Akropolites (AD 1217–1282) History

Amb.

St Ambrose of Milan (AD c. 340–397)

Ep.

Epistles

Fide

De fide (Concerning Faith)

Amm. Marc.

Ammianus Marcellinus (c. AD 330–400) Res gestae (History)

Anna Komnene

(AD 1083–c. 1154) Alexiad

Anth. Pal.

Anthologia Palatina (Palatine Anthology/Greek Anthology), compiled c. AD 940

Apoll. Argon.

Apollonios of Rhodes (third century BC) The Argonautika (schol.: Wendel, K. (ed.), Scholia in Apollonium Rhodium vetera, Berlin, 1935)

Apollod. Bibl.

Apollodorus (first or second century AD) Bibliotheke (The Library of Mythology)

App.

Appian (c. AD 95–165)

Civ.

Civil War

Hisp.

Spanish War

Iber.

Iberian War

   

It.

Italian War

Lib.

Punic War

Mith.

Mithridatic War

Sam.

Samnite History

Aratus Phaen.

Aratus (c. 315–240 BC) Phainomena (Phenomena) (schol.: Martin, J. (ed.), Scholia in Aratum vetera, Stuttgart, 1974)

Archil.

Archilochus (c.680–630 BC) (West, M.L. (ed.), Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantata, vols 1–2, Oxford, 1971– 72)

Arist.

Aristotle (384–322 BC)

Hist. An.

Historia animalium (History of Animals)

Pol.

Politics

[Arist.]

Pseudo–Aristotle

Mir. Ausc.

(late fourth–third century BC?) De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvellous Things Heard)

Aristid. Or.

Aristides (AD 117–c. 181) Orations

Arnob. Adv. Nat.

Arnobius (late third–early fourth century AD) Adversus nationes (Against the Nations; sometimes translated as Against the Heathens)

Arr. Anab.

Arrian (second century AD) Anabasis (Journey of Alexander the Great)

Ascensio Isaiae

(late first–early third century AD) The Ascension of Isaiah

Athanasius Ep.

(c. AD 296–373) Epistles

Athen. Deip.

Athenaeus (c. AD 200) Deipnosophistae (Wise Men at Dinner)

Aug. Res Gest.

Augustus (63 BC–AD 14) Res gestae divi Augusti (The Achievements of the Deified Augustus)

August.

St Augustine (AD 354–430)

Civ.

De civitate dei contra paganos (City of God Against the Pagans)

Enn. in Ps.

Enarrationes in Psalmos (Expositions on the Psalms)

Ep.

Epistles

Faust.

Against Faustus

Aur. Vict. Caes.

Aurelius Victor (c. AD 320–390) De Caesaribus (On the Caesars)

 

See also Ps.-Aur. Vict.

Avesta: Yasna

(fifth–sixth century AD?) (Panaino, A. (ed.), Tištrya. Part I: The Avestan Hymn to Sirius. Part II: The Iranian Myth of the Star Sirius, Rome, 1990–95)

Basil Ep.

St Basil (AD 330–379) Epistles

Caes.

Julius Caesar (100–44 BC)

Afr.

De bello Africo (The War in Africa)

Civ.

De bello civili (Civil War)

Gall.

De bello Gallico (The War in Gaul)

Calendarium Gemini

Geminus (first century BC) Calendar (Manitius, C. (ed.), Gemini elementa astronomiae, Leipzig, 1898)

Callim. Aet.

Callimachus (c. 320–245 BC] Aetia (Causes) (Pfeiffer, R. (ed.), Callimachus, vols 1–2, Oxford, 1949–53)

Calp. Ecl.

Calpurnius Siculus (c. AD 50) Eclogues (Korzeniewski, D. (ed.), Hirtengedichte aus neronischer Zeit. Titus Calpurnius Siculus und die Einsiedler Gedichte, Darmstadt, 1971)

Cat.

Catullus (c. 84–54 BC) Poems

Cato

Cato the Elder (234–149 BC)

Agr.

De agri cultura (On Agriculture), c. 160 BC

Mil.

De re militari (Concerning Military Matters) (Jordan, H., (ed.), M. Catonis Praeter librum de re rustica quae extant, Leipzig, 1860)

Celsus Med.

(reign of Tiberius, AD 14–37) De medicina

Cens. Die Nat.

(third century AD) De die natali

Charisius Gramm.

(fourth century AD) Ars grammatica (Barwick, C. (ed.), Flavii Sosipatri Charisii artis grammaticae libri V, Leipzig, 1964)

Choniates Hist.

Niketas Choniates (c. AD 1155–1217) Chronike diegesis (History)

Chron. Pasch.

Chronicon Paschale (AD 284–627)

Cic.

Cicero (106–43 BC)

Att.

Letters to Atticus, 65–43 BC

Caecin.

Pro Caecina, 69 BC

Catil.

Against Catiline, 63 BC

Deiot.

Pro rege Deiotaro AD C. Caesarem oratio, 45 BC

Div.

De divinatione (On Divination), 44 BC

Dom.

De domo sua (On His House), 57 BC

Fam.

Ad familiares (Letters to His Friends), 62–43 BC

Fin.

De finibus bonorum et malorum (On the Ends of Good and Evil), 44 BC

Font.

Pro Fonteio, 69 BC

Har. Resp.

De haruspicum responsis (On the Response of the Haruspices), 57 BC

Leg.

De legibus (On the Laws), 52–43? BC

Leg. Agr.

De lege agraria (On the Agrarian Law), 63 BC

Leg. Man.

De lege Manilia (De imperio Gnaei Pompei: On the Command of Gnaeus Pompey), 66 BC

Marcell.

Pro Marcello, 46 BC

Nat. Deor.

De natura deorum (On the Nature of the Gods), 45 BC

Off.

De officiis (On Duties), 44 BC

Orat.

De oratore (On Oratory), 55 BC

Phil.

Philippicae (Philippics), 44–43 BC

Pis.

In Pisonem (Against Piso), 55 BC

Prov.

De provinciis consularibus (Concerning the Consular Provinces), 56 BC

Rep.

De re publica (On the Republic), 51 BC

Sull.

Pro Sulla (In Defence of Sulla), 62 BC

Tusc.

Tusculanae disputationes (Tusculan Disputations), 45 BC

Verr.

In Verrem (Against Verres), 70 BC

Claud.

Claudian (c. AD 370–404)

Carm. Min.

Carmina minora (Shorter Poems)

VI Cons. Hon.

VI Consulatu Honorii Augusti (On the Sixth Consulship of the Emperor Honorius)

Clem. Al. Protr.

Clement of Alexandria (c.AD 150–215) Protreptikos (Exhortation to the Greeks)

Cod. Just.

Codex Justinianus (Lawcode of Justinian)

Const. Porph.

Constantine Porphyrogennetos (AD 905–959)

Cer.

De ceremoniis (On Ceremonies)

DAI

De administrando imperio (On the Administration of the Empire)

Corippus

Flavius Cresconius Corippus (sixth century AD) Iohannis (Tale of John)

Curt.

Curtius Rufus (died AD 53) Historiae Alexandri Magni (History of Alexander the Great)

C.Th.

Codex Theodosianus (Lawcode of Theodosius)

Cypr. Ep.

Cyprian (c. AD 200–258) Epistles

Dio

Cassius Dio (c. AD 155–235) Roman History (753 BC–AD 229)

Dio Chrys. Or.

Dio Chrysostom (c. AD 40–112) Orations

Diod.

Diodorus Siculus (first century BC) Bibliotheca historica (World History)

Diog. Laert.

Diogenes Laertius (third century AD) Eminent Philosophers

Dion. Hal. Rom. Ant.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus (60–c. 7 BC) Roman Antiquities

Dioscorides

(first century BC) De materia medica (On Medical Matters)

Enn.

Ennius (239–169 BC)

Ann.

Annals (Skutsch, O. (ed.), The Annals of Q. Ennius, Oxford, 1985)

HecLyt.

Hectoris lytra (Ransom of Hector) (ROL: see below)

Ephraim Syrus

(c. AD 306–373) Hymni contra Iulianum (Hymns Against the Emperor Julian)

Epict. Disc.

Epictetus (c. AD 50–130) Discourses

Eur. Alc.

Euripides (480s–407/06 BC) Alcestis (438 BC)

Euseb.

Eusebius of Caesarea (c. AD 260–339)

Chron.

Chronicle

Hist. Eccl.

Historia ecclesiastica (Ecclesiastical History)

Laus Const.

Laus Constantini (In Praise of Constantine; or Tricennalian Oration)

Vit. Const.

Vita Constantini (Life of Constantine)

Eutr.

Eutropius (c. AD 350–400) Breviarium historiae Romanae (Summary of Roman History)

Evagrius

Evagrius Scholasticus (c. AD 537–after 594) Historia ecclesiastica (Ecclesiastical History)

Festus

Festus (late second century AD) De verborum significatu (On the Meaning of Words) (L: Lindsay, W.M. (ed.), Sexti Pompei Festi De verborum significatu quae supersunt cum Pauli epitome, Stuttgart, 1913)

Flor. Epit.

Florus (c. AD 74–130) Epitome of Roman History

Front. Strat.

Frontinus (died AD 103/04) Stratagems

Fulcher Hist.

Fulcher of Chartres (c. AD 1058–1127) Historia Hierosolymitana (History of Jerusalem)

Gai.

Gaius (c. AD 140–180) Institutes

Galen

Galen (AD 129–216) (K: Kühn, C.G., Claudii Galeni opera omnia, Leipzig, 1821–33) See CMG (below)

Gell. Noct. Att.

Aulus Gellius (c. AD 130–180) Noctes Atticae (Attic Nights)

Gennadius

Gennadius II Scholarius (Patriarch of Constantinople: c. AD 1400–1473) Dialogus Christiani cum Iudaeo (Dialogue of a Christian with a Jew) (Jahn, A. (ed.), Anecdota Graeca theologica, Bern, 1893)

Geoponica

Agricultural Matters (tenth century AD) (Beckh, H. (ed.), Geoponica sive Cassiani Bassi Scholastici, De re rustica eclogae, Leipzig, 1895)

Germ. Aratus

Germanicus (15 BC–AD 19) Claudi Caesaris Arati Phaenomena (Germanicus’ Translation of the Phaenomena of Aratus)

Greg. Naz. Or.

(c. AD 329–390) Orations

Gregory of Nyssa

(c. AD 335–395) Homily on the Forty Martyrs

Gregory of Tours

(c. AD 538–594)

Hist. Franc.

History of the Franks

Hdn

Herodian of Antioch (c. AD 170–240) History of the Roman Empire from the Death of Marcus Aurelius (AD 180–238)

Hdt.

Herodotus (second half of the fifth century BC) Histories

Heracl. QuaestHom.

Heraclitus (c.500 BC) Quaestiones Homericae (Homeric Questions)

Herakl. Pont.

Herakleides Pontikos (Wehrli, F. (ed.), Die Schule des Aristoteles. Texte und Kommentar, vol. 7, Basel, 1969)

Hes. Theog.

Hesiod (writing around 700 BC) Theogony See also Ps.-Hes.

Hippocr.

Hippocrates (the writings date to the late fifth–mid-fourth century BC] (Jones, W.H.S. (ed.), Hippocrates, London, 1923; Littré, E. (ed.), Oeuvres complètes d’Hippocrate, Paris, 1839–61)

Epid.

Epidemics

Reg.

On Regimen in Acute Diseases

Hippol. Ref.

Hippolytus (c. AD 170–236) Refutation of Heresies

Hom.

Homer (eighth century BC)

Il.

Iliad

Od.

Odyssey

Hor.

Horace (65–8 BC)

Epist.

Epistles, 1: 21 BC; 2: 11 BC

Epod.

Epodes, 30 BC

Od.

Odes, 23 BC

Sat.

Satires, 35–30 BC

Hyg. Astr.

Hyginus (first century AD) Astronomica

Isid. Etym.

Isidore (AD 560–636) Etymologies

Isoc. Philip.

Isocrates (436–338 BC) Philippus

Jer.

St Jerome (Hieronymus) (AD 347–420)

Ep.

Epistles

Vir. Ill.

De viris illustribus (Lives of Illustrious Men)

Johanan b.Zakkai

(Jewish sage, first century AD) (Goldschmidt, L. (ed.), Der Babylonische Talmud, Berlin, 1897–1912; trans. Gittin, V., The Babylonian Talmud, vol. 6, Berlin, 1932)

John of Nikiu

Chronicle (late seventh century AD)

Joseph.

Josephus (AD 37–c. 100)

Jud. Ant.

Jewish Antiquities

Bell. Jud.

Bellum Judaicum (Jewish Wars)

C. Ap.

Contra Apion (Against Apion)

Julian

Julian (Emperor) (AD 331–363)

Ep.

Epistulae (Letters)

Ep. Ath.

Epistula AD SPQ Atheniarum (Letter to the Senate and People of Athens)

Julius Exuperantius

History (fourth or fifth century AD)

Just.

Justin (second century AD) Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus

Justinian Novellae

Justinian I (Emperor) (c. AD 482–565) Novellae Constitutiones (Novels/New Constitutions) See also Cod. Just.

Juv. Sat.

Juvenal Satires (c. AD 65–127)

Kekaumenos

(c. AD 1020–1080) Strategikon (Precepts)

Lactant.

(c. AD 250–325)

Div. Inst.

Divine Institutes

Mort. Pers.

On the Deaths of the Persecutors

Leo Deac.

Leo the Deacon (c. AD 950–995) History

Liban. Or.

Libanius (AD 314–393) Orations

Livy

Livy (59 BC–AD 17) History of Rome

Per.

Periochae (Summaries of the Books)

Luc.

Lucan (AD 38–65) Pharsalia (On the Civil War)

Lucian Menippus

(c. AD 125–180) Menippus (The Descent into Hades)

Lucill.

Gaius Lucillius (180–102 BC) (Marx, F. (ed.), C. Lucili carminum reliquiae, vols 1–2, Leipzig, 1904–05)

Lucr.

Lucretius (first century BC) De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things)

Lycophron

(third century BC) (Scheer, E. (ed.), Lycophronis Alexandra. Scholia, vol. 2, Berlin, 1908)

Lyd. Mens.

John the Lydian (sixth century AD), De mensibus (Concerning the Months)

Macrob. Sat.

Macrobius (fifth century AD) Saturnalia

Malalas

John Malalas (c. AD 491–578) Chronicle

Manil. Astr.

Manilius (first century AD) Astronomica

Maximus of Turin

(c. AD 380–465) Sermons

Mart. Ep.

Martial (c. AD 38–104) Epigrams

Mart. Cap.

Martianus Capella (flor. AD 425) De septem disciplinis (On the Seven Disciplines)

Maurice Strategikon

(attributed to the Byzantine emperor Maurice: AD 539–602)

Min. Fel.

Minucius Felix (late second or early third century AD) Octavius

Naev. Inc.

Gnaeus Naevius (c. 270–200 BC) Incertis fragmenta (ROL: see below)

Nechepso & Petosiris

(second–first century BC) (Ries, E. (ed.), Nechepsonis et Petosiridis fragmenta magica, Leipzig, 1891)

Nep. Att.

Nepos (100–24 BC) Life of Atticus

Nigidius Figulus

Nigidius Figulus (98–c. 45 BC) Sphaera graecanica (Swoboda, A. (ed.), P. Nigidii Figuli operum reliquiae, Amsterdam, 1889)

Nikander Ther.

(second century BC) Theriaka (On Venomous Beasts)

Nonn. Dion.

Nonnos (flor. AD 450–470) Dionysiaca

Not. Dig.

Notitia dignitatum (List of Offices) (c. AD 395–420)

Obsequens

Julius Obsequens Liber de prodigiis (Book of Prodigies; fourth-century AD epitomator of the prodigies recorded in Livy for 249–11 BC)

Olympiodorus

(sixth century AD) (Stüve, W. (ed.), Olympiodori in Aristotelis meteora commentaria, Berlin, 1900)

Onasander Strat.

(first century AD) Strategikos (On Generalship)

Optat.

St Optatus of Milevis (St Optate) (fourth century ad)

Oracula Sibyllina

Sibylline Oracles (compiled sixth century AD) (Kurfeß, A. & Gauger, J.-D. (eds), Sibyllinische Weissagungen. Griechisch-deutsch, Darmstadt, 1998)

Oration to the Saints

Constantine I (Emperor) (c. AD 272–337) Oratio ad sanctos (Oration to the Saints)

Oribasius Coll. Med.

(c. AD 320–400) Medical Collections

Origen Cels.

(c. AD 184–253] Contra Celsum (Against Celsus)

Oros.

Paulus Orosius (AD 375–after 418) Historiae adversus paganos (History Against the Pagans)

Ovid

(43 BC–AD 17)

Am.

Amores

Fasti

Festivals of the Roman Calendar (January–June)

Her.

Heroides

Metam.

Metamorphoses

Trist.

Tristia

Pac. Teuc.

Pacuvius (220–130 BC) Teucer (ROL: see below)

Palladius

(late fourth or early fifth century AD) Opus agriculturae (On Farming)

Pan. Lat.

Panegyrici latini (The Latin Panegyrics) (AD 289–389; multiple authors)

Passio sancti Pauli

Passio sancti Pauli apostoli (fourth–fifth century AD) (Lipsius, R.A. (ed.), Acta apostolorum Apocrypha I, Leipzig, 1891)

Paul of Aegina

(AD 620–690) Medical Compendium

Paul the Deacon

(eighth century AD) Historia romana (Roman History) See Festus

Paulinus of Nola Ep.

(AD 354–431) Epistles

Paus.

Pausanias (wrote c. AD 150) Description of Greece

Petron.

Petronius (died AD 66) Satyricon

Philo

Philo Judaeus (c. 15 BC–AD 50) Embassy to Gaius (Caligula)

Philostorgios

(AD 368–c. 439)

Hist. Eccl.

Historia ecclesiastica (Ecclesiastical History)

Philostr. Apoll.

Philostratos (died AD 244–249) Life of Apollonios of Tyre

Phlegon Mir.

Phlegon of Tralles (reign of Hadrian AD 117–138) Mirabilia (Curiosities)

Plaut.

Plautus (254–184 BC)

Asin.

Asinaria

Amph.

Amphitryon

Bacch.

Bacchides

Capt.

Captivi

Cas.

Casina

Epid.

Epidicus

Mil.

Miles Gloriosus

Mostell.

Mostellaria

Stich.

Stichus

Truc.

Truculentus

Pliny Nat. Hist.

Pliny the Elder (AD 23/24–79) Natural History

Pliny

Pliny the Younger (AD 61–117)

Ep.

Epistles

Pan.

Panegyricus

Plut.

Plutarch (second century AD)

Aem.

Aemilius Paulus

Alex.

Alexander

Ant.

Mark Antony

Caes.

Julius Caesar

Cam.

Furius Camillus

Cat.

Cato

Comp. Dem. Ant.

Comparison of Demetrius and Antony

Cor.

Coriolanus

Crass.

Marcus Licinius Crassus

Fab.

Fabius Maximus

Gal.

Galba

Luc.

Lucullus

Mar.

C. Marius

Marc.

M. Claudius Marcellus

Mor.

Moralia

Nic.

Nicias

Num.

Numa

Pomp.

Cn. Pompey (Magnus)

Pyrrh.

Pyrrhus

Rom.

Romulus

RomQuest.

Roman Questions (Moralia)

Sull.

L. Cornelius Sulla

Them.

Themistocles

Thes.

Theseus

Tib. Gr.

Tiberius Gracchus

Polyb.

Polybius (c.200–118 BC) Histories

Porph. Nymph.

Porphyry (AD 234–c. 305) De antro nympharum (On the Cave of the Nymphs)

Procop.

Procopius (c. AD 507–after 555)

Pers.

Persian War

Vand.

Vandalic War

Prop. El.

Propertius (c. 50–15 BC) Elegies

Prosper of Aquitaine

(c. AD 390–455) De vocatione omnium gentium (Concerning the Calling of All Peoples)

Epitome chronikon

(Epitome of Chronicles)

Prudent. Symm.

Prudentius (AD 348–c. 405) Libri contra Symmachum (Books Against Symmachus)

Ps.-Aur. Vict.

Pseudo-Aurelius Victor (date unknown)

Orig. Gent. Rom.

De origo gentis romanae (The Origin of the Roman People) See also Vir. Ill.

Ps.-Herakl. Ep.

Pseudo-Herakleitos Epistulae (Westermann, A. (ed.), Heracliti, Epistolae quae feruntur, Leipzig, 1857)

Ps.-Hes.

Pseudo-Hesiod (sixth century BC ?) Scutum (The Shield of Hercules)

Ps.-Hyg. MunCas.

Pseudo-Hyginus (late first–early second century AD) De munitionibus castrorum (On the Fortifications of Camps)

Ps.-Sen. Oct.

Pseudo-Seneca (early second century AD) Octavia

Ps.-Skyl.

Pseudo-Skylitzes (eleventh century AD?) Orbis descriptio (Description of the World)

Psellos Chron.

Michael Psellos (AD 1018–after 1081) Chronographia (History)

Quint. Inst.

Quintilian (c. AD 35–100) Institutio oratoria (Institutes of Oratory), AD c. 95

Rhetorius

(fifth–sixth century AD) (Cumont, F. & Boll, F. et al. (eds), Catalogus codicum astrologorum graecorum, Brussels, 1898– 1953)

Robert of Clari

(died after AD 1216) La conquête de Constantinople (Conquest of Constantinople)

Rufinus Hist. Eccl.

(c. AD 344–411) Historia ecclesiastica (Ecclesiastical History)

Rufus

Rufus of Ephesus (c. AD 100) Medical Questions

Russian Primary

 

Chronicle

(c. AD 1113)

Sall.

Sallust (86–35 BC)

Cat.

The Conspiracy of Catiline

Hist.

Histories

Jug.

Jugurthine War

Scribonius Largus

(c. AD 1–after 47) De compositione medicamentorum liber (On the Composition of Medicines)

Sen.

Seneca the Younger (1 BC–AD 65)

Ben.

De beneficiis (On Benefactions)

Clem.

De clementia (On Clemency)

Constant.

De constantia sapientis (On the Constancy of the Sage)

Ep.

Epistles

Nat. Quaest.

Naturales quaestiones (Questions of Natural Philosophy) See too Ps.-Sen. Oct.

Serv.

Servius (late fourth–early fifth century AD) Commentary on Virgil

Aen.

Aeneid

Ecl.

Eclogues

Georg.

Georgics

SHA

Scriptores historiae Augustae (late fourth century AD)

Alex. Sev.

Alexander Severus

Aurel.

Aurelian

Comm.

Commodus

Hadr.

Hadrian

Marc.

Marcus Aurelius

Sil. Ital. Pun.

Silus Italicus (AD 25–101) Punica

Skylitzes

John Skylitzes (second half of the eleventh century) Synopsis historiarum (Synopsis of History)

Socrates Hist. Eccl.

(c. AD 380–439) Historia ecclesiastica (Ecclesiastical History)

Solin. Coll. Mem.

Solinus (early third century BC) Collectanea rerum memorabilium (Collections of Curiosities)

Sozom.

Sozomen (AD 400–c. 450) Historia ecclesiastica (Ecclesiastical History)

Stat.

Statius (AD 45–96)

Sil.

Silvae

Theb.

Thebaid

Strabo

Strabo (born c. 64 BC, writing in Augustus’ reign) Geography

Suet.

Suetonius (c. AD 69–122) Lives of the Twelve Caesars

Aug.

Augustus

Caes.

Julius Caesar

Calig.

Caligula

Claud.

Claudius

Dom.

Domitian

Galb.

Galba

Ner.

Nero

Oth.

Otho

Tib.

Tiberius

Vesp.

Vespasian

Vitell.

Vitellius

Suida

(end of the tenth century AD) (Adler, A. (ed.), Suidae lexicon, vols 1–5, Leipzig, 1928–38)

Sulpicius Severus

(c. AD 363–425) Vita Martini (Life of St Martin)

Symm. Rel.

Symmachus (c. AD 345–402) Relationes (Letters to Emperors)

Tac.

Tacitus (AD 56–120)

Agr.

Agricola

Ann.

Annals

Germ.

Germania

Hist.

Histories

Tert.

Tertullian (c. AD 155–240)

Anim.

De anima (On the Soul)

Apol.

Apologeticus (Apology)

CorMil.

De corona militis (On the Military Crown)

Idol.

De idolatria (On Idolatry)

Nat.

Ad nationes (To the Nations)

Scap.

Ad scapulam (To Scapula)

Spect.

De spectaculis (Concerning the Spectacles)

Theocritus

Theocritus (c. 300–260 BC) Idylls

Theodore Synkellos

(first half of the seventh century) Homily on the Siege of Constantinople in 626

Theodoret

(c. AD 393–466)

Ep.

Epistles

Hist. Eccl.

Historia ecclesiastica (Ecclesiastical History)

Theoph.

Theophrastos (372–288 BC)

Caus. Plan.

De causis plantarum (On the Causes of Plants)

Char.

Characters

Hist. Plant.

Historia plantarum (Enquiry into Plants)

Theophylact

Theophylact Simocatta (seventh century AD) Historiae (Histories)

Tib. El.

Tibullus (55–19 BC) Elegies

Tyr.

Tyrtaeus (c. 640 BC)

Ulpian

(c. AD 170–230) Domitii Ulpiani fragmenta

Val. Flacc.

Valerius Flaccus (first century AD) Argonautica

Val. Max.

Valerius Maximus (writing in the reign of Tiberius: AD 14–37) Facta et dicta memorabilia (Memorable Deeds and Words)

Varro

M. Terentius Varro (116–27 BC)

AntHumDiv.

Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum (Antiquities of Human and Divine Matters) (Cardauns, B. (ed.), M. Terentius Varro: Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum, vols 1–2, Wiesbaden, 1976)

Ling. Lat.

De lingua latina (On the Latin Language)

Rust.

Rerum rusticarum (On Rural Matters)

Vita PopRom.

De vita populi romani (On the Life of the Roman People) (Riposati, B. (ed.), M. Terenti Varronis de vita populi romani, Milan, 1939)

Veg. Mil.

P. Flavius Vegetius Renatus (late fourth century AD) Epitoma rei militaris (Epitome of Military Matters)

Vell. Pat.

Velleius Paterculus (19 BC–ad 31) Historia romana (Roman History)

VirIll.

Pseudo-Aurelius Victor De viris illustribus urbis Romae (On the Famous Men of the City of Rome) (Pichlmayr, F. (ed.), De viris illustribus urbis Romae, Leipzig, 1911)

Virg.

Virgil (70–19 BC)

Aen.

Aeneid

Ecl.

Eclogues

Georg.

Georgics

Vita Alexandri

Life of Alexander (the Great) (van Thiel, H. (ed.), Leben und Taten Alexanders von Makedonien. Der griechische Alexanderroman nach der Handschrift L, Darmstadt, 1974)

Vitr. Arch.

Vitruvius (first century BC) De architectura

William of Tyre

(AD c.1130–1186) History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea

Xanth. Hist. Eccl.

Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos (c. AD 1256–1335) Historia ecclesiastica

Xen.

Xenophon (430–c. 355 BC)

Hell.

Hellenica

Mem.

Memorabilia

Zon.

Zonaras (AD 1074–1130) Epitome historiae (Historical Epitome)

Zos.

Zosimus (c. AD 500) Historia nova (New History)

Abbreviations of Modern Works, including Editions of Inscriptions

AB

Analecta Bollandiana

AC

L’Antiquité classique

AE

L’Année épigraphique

Aevum

Aevum: rassegna di scienze storiche, linguistiche e filologiche

AJA

American Journal of Archaeology

AJAH

American Journal of Ancient History

AJPh

American Journal of Philology

AncSoc

Ancient Society

ANRW

Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt

ArchClass

Archéologia classica

BABesch

Bulletin antieke beschaving: Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology

BAR

British Archaeological Reports

BCTH

Bulletin archéologique du Comité des travaux historique

BHG

Halkin, F. (ed.), Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca, 3rd edn, Brussels, 1957

BICS

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London

BM

British Museum

BMC

Mattingly, H., Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum (BMC), London, 1923

BN

Biblische Notizen

BS

Byzantinoslavica

BSA

Annual of the British School at Athens

Byz

Byzantion

BZ

Byzantinische Zeitschrift

CCID

Hörig, M. & Schwertheim, E., Corpus cultus Iovis Dolicheni, Leiden, 1987

CGL

Corpus grammaticorum latinorum

ChHist

Church History

CIL

Corpus inscriptionum latinarum, Berlin, 1893–1986

CIMRM

Vermaseren, M.J. (ed.), Corpus inscriptionum et monumentorum religionis Mithriacae, vols 1–2, Den Haag, 1956–60

ClAnt

Classical Antiquity

CMG

Corpus medicorum graecorum

CNG

Classical Numismatic Group

CPh

Classical Philology

CQ

Classical Quarterly

Crawford RRC

Crawford, M.H., Roman Republican Coinage, Cambridge, 1974

CrSt

Cristianesimo nella Storia: Ricerche Storiche, Esegetiche, Teologiche

CSIR

Corpus signorum imperii romani, Oxford, 1982–present

CW

The Classical World

DHA

Dialogues d’histoire ancienne

DialArch

Dialoghi di archéologia

DOP

Dumbarton Oaks Papers

Emerita

Emerita: revista de linguística y filologia clásica

EO

Echos d’Orient

FGrH

Jacoby, F., Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker, Berlin, 1923–58; Fornara, C.W., vol. iiic fasc. 1–, Leiden, 1994

FHG

Müller, K. (ed.), Fragmenta historicorum graecorum, vols i–iv, Paris, 1841–73.

G&R

Greece and Rome

GRF

Funaioli, G. (ed.), Grammaticae romanae fragmenta, Stuttgart, 1969

Helios

Helios. A Journal Devoted to Critical and Methodological Studies of Classical Culture, Literature and Society

Hermes

Hermes: Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie

Historia

Historia: Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte

HSCPh

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology

HThR

Harvard Theological Review

ICUR

Rossi, J.B. de (ed.), Inscriptiones Christianae urbis Romae, Rome, 1857–88

IDR

Inscriptiones Daciae Romanae

IG ii2

Inscriptiones Graecae, vol. ii, 2nd edn, Berlin, 1913–40

IG iv2 1

Inscriptiones Graecae, vol. iv, part 1, 2nd edn, Berlin, 1929

ILAf

Wilmanns, G. et al. (eds), Inscriptiones latinae Africae, Berlin, 1881–1916

ILCV

Diehl, E. (ed.), Inscriptiones latinae Christianae veteres, Berlin, 1961

ILLRP

Degrassi, A. (ed.), Inscriptiones latinae liberae rei publicae, vols 1–2, Florence, 1957–63

ILS

Dessau, H. (ed.), Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, vols 1–5, Berlin, 1892–1916

ILTun

Merlin, A. (ed.), Inscriptions latines de la Tunisie, Paris, 1944

InscrIt xiii

Degrassi, A. (ed.), Inscriptiones Italiae xiii: Fasti et elogia, vols 1–2, Rome, 1937

JAAR

Journal of the American Academy of Religion

JAH

Journal of Ancient History

JBL

Journal of Biblical Literature

JDAI

Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts

JECS

Journal of Early Christian Studies

JMH

Journal of Medieval History

JRA

Journal of Roman Archaeology

JRMES

Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies

JRS

Journal of Roman Studies

KAI

Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften

Klio

Klio. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte

Latomus

Latomus: Revue d’études latines

LIMC

Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae

LSJ9

Liddell, H.G., Scott, R., Jones, H.S. et al., A Greek-English Lexicon, 9th edn with a Revised Supplement, Oxford, 1996

MAAR

Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome

MDAI(A)

Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung

MDAI(R)

Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung

MEFRA

Mélanges d’archéologie et d’histoire de l’École française de Rome. Antiquité

Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne: bibliotheca classica Batava

NC

Numismatic Chronicle

Nikephoros

Nikephoros: Zeitschrift für Sport und Kultur im Altertum

NTS

New Testament Studies

Numen

Numen. International Review for the History of Religions

OJA

Oxford Journal of Archaeology

OLD

Glare, P.G.W., Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd edn, vols 1–2, Oxford, 2012

Ollodagos

Ollodagos: Actes de la société belge d’études celtiques

Pallas

Pallas. Revue d’études antiques

PP

Parola del Passato

P. Bodmer

Bodmer Papyri

P. Dura

Dura Papyri

P. Oxy.

Oxyrhynchus Papyri

PBSR

Papers of the British School at Rome

PEG i

Bernabé, A., Poetarum epicorum Graecorum testimonia et fragmenta, Pars i, Leipzig, 1987

PG

Patrologia Graeca (Migne, J.-P. (ed.), vols 1–161, Paris, 1857–66)

Philologus

Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur und ihre Rezeption

Phoenix

Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada/Revue de la société canadienne des études classiques

PL

Patrologia Latina (Migne, J.-P. (ed.), vols 1–221, Paris, 1841–65)

PLRE

Martindale, J.R. (ed.), The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1980

Powell CA

Powell, J.U. (ed.), Collectanea Alexandrina: reliquiae minores poetarum graecorum aetatis ptolemaicae, 323–146 A.C., Oxford, 1925

PSI

Papiri della Società Italiana

RA

Revue Archéologique

RAC

Rivista di Archéologia Cristiana

RE

Pauly Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Stuttgart, 1890–1978

REB

Revue des études byzantines

REJ

Revue des études juives

REL

Revue des études latines

RevPhil

Revue de philologie, de littérature et d’histoire anciennes

RHR

Revue de l’histoire des religions

RIB

Roman Inscriptions of Britain

RIC

Mattingly, H. et al. (eds), The Roman Imperial Coinage, vols 1–10, London, 1923–94

RIU

Die römischen Inschriften Ungarns

RhM

Rheinisches Museum für Philologie

ROL

Warmington, E.H. (ed. & trans.), Remains of Old Latin, vols 1–4, London, 1935–40

RPAA

Rendiconti della Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archéologia, Serie III

RPC

Burnett, A. et al., Roman Provincial Coinage, vols 1–2, London, 1992

RRC

Crawford, M.H., Roman Republican Coinage, vols 1–2, Cambridge, 1974

RVW

Engels, D. (ed.), Das römische Vorzeichenwesen (753–27 v. Chr.): Quellen, Terminologie, Kommentar, historische Entwicklung, Stuttgart, 2007

Saeculum

Saeculum: Jahrbuch für Universalgeschichte

Scheer

Scheer, E. (ed.), Lycophronis Alexandra. Scholia, vol. 2, Berlin, 1908

SE

Studi etruschi

Steinby LTUR

Steinby, E.M. (ed.), Lexicon topographicum urbis Romae, vols 1–6, Rome, 1993–2000

StudPat

Studia Patristica

Sydenham CRR

Sydenham, E.A., The Coinage of the Roman Republic, London, 1952

TAPhA

Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association

TAPhS

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society

ThesCRA

Thesaurus cultus et rituum antiquorum

Thll

Thesaurus lingua latina

VChr

Vigiliae christianae

WS

Wiener Studien: Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Patristik und Lateinische Tradition

YCS

Yale Classical Studies

ZAC

Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum

ZNW

Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft

ZRGG

Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte

Notes on Contributors

Gerhard Baudy

Gerhard Baudy, born in 1950 in Zweibrücken, Germany, studied Classical Philology and German studies in Saarbrücken and Tübingen, where in 1977 he completed his dissertation concerning ancient Greek attitudes to death. Between 1977 and 1989 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Kiel, until his habilitation with a thesis concerning agricultural myths in ancient Greek literature. From 1994–2015 he was Professor for Greek Studies at the University of Konstanz. His publications concern mainly the religions of the eastern Mediterranean area.

Yann le Bohec

Yann le Bohec, born in Carthage (Tunisia) in 1943, is an Emeritus Professor at Sorbonne University. He has especially studied Roman Gaul, Roman Africa and the Roman Army. He has written some thirty books and more than 200 articles. Among his publications, particular mention must be made of his seminal monograph, The Imperial Roman Army (London, 1994). He was also General Editor of The Encyclopedia of the Roman Army (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015, in three volumes). His latest book is in French, La vie quotidienne des soldats romains (31 avant J.-C.-235 apràs J.-C.) (Paris, 2020).

Megan Daniels

Megan Daniels is Assistant Professor of Greek Material Culture at the University of British Columbia. Her interests focus on cultural interactions in the eastern Mediterranean in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages. She is currently completing a monograph on the shared ideologies of divine kingship between the Aegean and western Asia through the figure of the Queen of Heaven. Further interests include interdisciplinary approaches to ancient migration and the intersections of religion and economy in the ancient Mediterranean. She publishes mainly on religious syncretism in the contexts of economic and political expansion in the Mediterranean, and is also currently preparing publications on pottery from sites in Greece and Tunisia.

Matthew Dillon

Matthew Dillon, the Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England, Armidale, studied as an undergraduate and postgraduate at the University of Queensland. He has published on Greek and Roman history, with a special focus on ancient Greek religion. His most recent monograph is Omens and Oracles: Divination in Ancient Greece. Prophecy for the Future, Guidance for the Present, Knowledge of the Past (Routledge, 2017). He has wide teaching interests, reflected in two source-books and two textbooks on ancient Greece and Republican Rome.

Lynda Garland

Lynda Garland was Professor of Ancient and Medieval History at the University of New England, Australia. She is now an Honorary Research Professor in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland. Her main research interests are in the areas of Byzantine studies, the Crusades and ancient history. With Matthew Dillon, she is the author of two source-books and two textbooks on ancient Greece and Republican Rome.

Georgia L. Irby

Georgia L. Irby, Professor of Classical Studies at William and Mary, works on the history of Greek and Roman science. She received her PhD in Classical Philology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of Military Religion in Roman Britain (E.J. Brill, 1999) and editor of A Companion to Science, Technology and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome, in two volumes (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016). Her current book project, Water in the Greco-Roman World (two volumes: vol. 1: Conceptions of the Watery World; vol. 2: Using and Conquering the Watery World), is forthcoming from Bloomsbury.

Christopher W. Malone

Christopher W. Malone is currently an Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney. His research interests include intersections of religion and warfare, the depiction of imperial ideals in Rome and Byzantium, and the administration of the late Roman Empire. He has published on late antique history and the iconography of imperial violence, and is currently working on a book about identities in late imperial administration.

Oliver Stoll

Oliver Stoll studied Classical Archaeology, Ancient History and Prehistory at the Universities of Mainz and Freiburg. In 1992 he graduated in Classical Archaeology (Mainz), and in 2001 graduated with the postdoctoral lecture qualification in Ancient History (Mainz). After several academic positions as research assistant and research fellow at the Universities of Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Mainz and Bamberg, he became Fellow (Scholarship) of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz (RGZM). Since 2007 he has been the Chair for Ancient History at the University of Passau. His research interests are the military history of antiquity, economic and social history, the history of religions in Imperial Rome, ancient slavery and provincial archaeology.

Tristan S. Taylor

Tristan S. Taylor is a lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England, and a University Associate in the College of Arts, Law and Education at the University of Tasmania. He researches in comparative genocide studies and the ancient world, usurpation in the Roman Empire and Roman law.

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