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 , Catalogue of Women and fragments of summary from the (Titanomachy, Oedipus, Thebais, , Cypria, Aethiopia, Little , 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 On the Nature of Animals (NA), Historical Miscellany (VH) Loeb. Aeschylus 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 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses trans F. Celoria, London 1992. Apollodorus Library, Epitome Loeb, OWC. Apollonius , Argonautica Loeb, OWC, Penguin. Aristophanes Birds, Clouds, Frogs, , Pluto Loeb, Penguin, Aris and Phillips. Augustine De Civitate Dei, Loeb. Catullus Poems Loeb, OWC, Penguin. Cicero De Natura Deorum (ND) Loeb, OWC; Tusculan Disputations (Tusc) Loeb, Aris and Phillips. Diodorus Diodorus Siculus, book 4, (Mythical History of Greece), Loeb. Diogenes Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers Loeb. Dionysius Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae Loeb. Eratosthenes ps-Eratosthenes Catasterismoi in T. Condos Star Myths (Phanes MI 1997). Euripides 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. Gellius Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae Loeb. History Loeb, OWC, Penguin. Hesiod Theogony, Works and Days,Loeb (with Shield of Heracles), OWC, Penguin. Iliad, Loeb, OWC, Penguin Homeric Hymns (to various gods and goddesses) Loeb (under Hesiod). Horace Epistles, Epodes, Odes, Satires Loeb, Penguin. Hyginus Fabulae tr M Grant (Kansas 1960). Astronomica in T. Condos Star Myths (Phanes MI 1997). Juvenal Satires Loeb, Penguin. Livy History of Rome Loeb, Penguin. Lucian Dialogi Deorum, Dialogi Mortuorum, Verae Historiae, Loeb. Lucretius De Rerum Natura Loeb, OWC, Penguin. Manilius Astronomica Loeb. Nonnus Dionysiaca Loeb. Ovid Amores, Ars Amatoria, Heroides, Metamorphoses Loeb, OWC, Penguin. Pausanias Descriptions of Greece Loeb, Penguin. Pindar Isthmian, Nemean, Olympian, and Pyhian Odes Loeb, Penguin. Plato Cratylus, Ion, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Republic, Symposium, Timaeus, in Plato Complete Works ed J. M. Cooper, (Indianapolis: Hackett 1997). Pliny the Elder Natural History (NH) Loeb. Plutarch Parallel Lives, Parallel Stories, Moralia Loeb. Propertius Poems Loeb, OWC, Penguin. Quintus of Smyrna (Q Smyrnaeus) Posthomerica Loeb. Seneca Tragedies Loeb, Penguin. Servius Commentary on Vergil (Latin only). Ajax, Antigone, Electra, Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Philoctetes, Trachiniae Loeb, OWC, Penguin. Statius Achilleis, Loeb. Strabo Geographia Loeb. Suetonius Lives of the Caesars Loeb. Theocritus Bucolica Loeb. Tibullus Poems Loeb, Penguin. Valerius Flaccus Argonautica Loeb. Varro De Lingua Latina (LL) Loeb. Vergil Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid Loeb, OWC, Penguin.