ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviations for the names and works of ancient authors and for editions of inscriptions and papyri are mostly those used in the 2nd edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary (the 3rd edition had not yet appeared when the book went to press), but note:

Ath. Pol. without indication of author    the Athenaion Politeia attributed to Aristotle

Buck    Buck, The Greek Dialects

Her.    Herodotus

Hes. W.D.    Hesiod, Works and Days

LSAG     Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece

LSCG     Sokolowski, Lois sacrées des cités grecques

Meiggs and Lewis    Meiggs and Lewis, A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions

The editions used for the texts of fragments of poetry are specified at the first citation of each poet in each chapter; notice:

CEG     Hansen, Carmina Epigraphica Graeca

LGS     Page, Lyrica Graeca Selecta

PMG     Page, Poetae Melici Graeci

Details of books cited are given in the Bibliography; details of articles in periodicals are given in the Notes at the end of the chapters. Abbreviations for the titles of periodicals are mostly those used in L’Année Philologique, with the usual Anglophone divergences (AJP rather than AJPh, etc.), but notice:

AM     Athenische Mitteilungen(i.e. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung)

BSA    Annual of the British School at Athens

The following abbreviations are used for volumes of conference proceedings: (etc.) (etc.) 2nd symp. Ship-Construction= Proceedings: 2nd International Symposium on Ship-Construction in Antiquity.

And it should be noted that throughout this volume ancient dates are BC unless otherwise stated.