| ACIO | Atti del Convegno Internazionale Ovidiano, Sulmona, maggio 1959, Rome, 1959 |
| Ael. | Claudius Aelianus (2nd–3rd cent. AD),
rhetorician and moralist NA: De Natura Animalium |
| Aesch. | Aeschylus, son of Euphorion (525/4–456
BC), Greek tragedian Ag.: Agamemnon Choeph.: Choephori Myrmid.: Myrmidones Sept.: Septem contra Thebas (Seven against Thebes) |
| Aeschin. | Aeschines (c. 397–c. 322 BC), Athenian orator |
| AJPh | American Journal of Philology |
| André Pont. | J. M. André, Ovide: Pontiques, Paris, 1977 |
| André Tr. | J. M. André, Ovide: Tristes, Paris, 1968 |
| Anth. Pal | Anthologia Palatina, the ‘Greek Anthology’, a late 10th-cent.-AD collection of epigrams, based on earlier anthologies, e.g. that of Meleager of Gadara (fl. c. 100 BC.) |
| Apollod. | Apollodorus, Greek mythographer of
?Antonine period, author of Bibliotheca,
compendium of myths Epit.: Epitome |
| App. BC | Appianus of Alexandria (2nd cent. AD): Roman-naturalized Greek historian and procurator Augusti: the Bellum Civile = Books 13–17 of his Romaïka |
| Ap. Rhod. | Apollonius Rhodius, Hellenistic (3rd cent. BC) Greek epic poet and scholar |
| Apul. Apol. | Apuleius Madaurensis (2nd cent. AD), African-Roman writer and rhetorician: his Apologia is also known as Pro se de magia. |
| Arat. Phaen. | Aratus of Soli (c. 315–240 BC), Greek Hellenistic poet, author of a Stoicized star-guide in verse, the Phaenomena |
| Aricescu | A. Aricescu, ‘Le mur d’enceinte de Tomi à l’époque d’Ovide’, Ovidianum, pp. 85–90 |
| Arist. | Aristoteles (Aristotle) of Stagira (384–322
BC), Greek philosopher HA: Historia Animalium Poet.: Poetica |
| Athen. | Athenaeus of Naucratis (fl. c. AD 200), author of discursive treatise on food (and literary dinner-table chat), the Deipnosophistae |
| Aug. Res Gest. | Augustus (63 BC–AD 14), first emperor of Rome, in his Res Gestae wrote a (carefully slanted) record of his achievements |
| Aul. Gell. NA | Aulus Gellius, (c. AD 130–c. AD 180), Roman writer, author of Noctes Atticae |
| Bakker | J. T. Bakker, Publ. Ovid. Nasonis Tristium Li V, Groningen, 1946 |
| Benedum | Jost Benedum, Studien zur Dichtkunst des späten Ovids, Giessen, 1967 |
| BICS | Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London |
| Burman | P. Burman, Publii Ovidii Nasonis Tristium Lib. IV Ex Ponto Lib. IV . . . Tom . . . III. Pars II, Amsterdam, 1727 |
| CA | Classical Antiquity |
| Caes. BC | C. Julius Caesar (100–44 BC), Roman general and Dictator: wrote the De Bello Civili to justify his part in the civil wars |
| Callim. | Callimachus of Cyrene (c. 305–c. 240 BC),
Alexandrian scholar-poet Epigr.: Epigrammata H.: Hymni |
| Catull. | C. Valerius Catullus (?84–?54 BC), Roman elegiac and lyric poet |
| Cels. | A. Cornelius Celsus (1st cent. AD), Roman encyclopaedist |
| Cic. | M. Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), Roman
writer, orator and statesman Att.: Epistulae ad Atticum Brut.: Brutus De Orat.: De Oratore Fam.: Epistulae ad Familiares ND: De Natura Deorum Phil.: Philippicae Rep.: De Republica Tusc. (Disp.): Tusculanae Disputationes |
| CIL | Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, Berlin, 1863– |
| CJ | Classical Journal |
| Claassen OPP | J.-M. Claassen, ‘Ovid’s poetic Pontus’, Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar, vol. vi (1990), pp. 65–94 |
| Claassen PEV | J.-M. Claassen, ‘Poeta, Exsul, Vates: A stylistic and literary analysis of Ovid’s Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto’, D.Litt. dissertation, Univ. of Stellenbosch, 1986 |
| Colakis | M. Colakis, ‘Ovid as praeceptor amoris in Epistulae ex Ponto 3.1’, CJ 82 (1987), pp. 210–15 |
| CQ | Classical Quarterly |
| Davisson DCE | M. T. Davisson, ‘Duritia and creativity in exile: Epistulae ex Ponto 4.10’, CA 1 (1982), pp. 28–42 |
| Davisson MPO | M. T. Davisson, ‘Magna tibi imposita est nostris persona libellis: playwright and actor in Ovid’s Epistulae ex Ponto 3.1’, CJ 79 (1984), pp. 324–39 |
| Davisson SSO | ‘Sed sum quam medico notior ipse mihi: Ovid’s use of some conventions in the exile epistles’, CA 2 (1983), pp. 171–82 |
| De Jonge | T. J. De Jonge, Publ. Ovid. Nasonis Tristium liber IV, Diss. Groningen, 1951 |
| Della Corte GSO | F. Delia Corte, ‘Il Geticus sermo di Ovidio’, Scritti in onore di Giuliano Bonfante (Brescia, 1975), i, pp. 205–16 |
| Della Corte OP | F. Della Corte, Ovidio: I Pontica, Genoa, 1974 |
| Della Corte OT | F. Della Corte, Ovidio: I Tristia, Genoa, 1973 |
| Della Corte, Fasce | F. Della Corte, S. Fasce, Ovidius Opere, II: Tristia, Ibis, Ex Ponto, Halieuticon liber, Turin, 1986 [not seen by me] |
| Dickinson | R. J. Dickinson, ‘The Tristia: poetry in exile’, in Ovid (ed. J. W. Binns, London, 1973), pp. 154–90 |
| Diggle | J. Diggle, ‘Notes on Ovid’s Tristia, Books I–II’, CQ 30 (1980), pp. 401–19 |
| Dio Cass. | Cassius Dio Cocceianus of Nicaea (2nd–3rd cent. AD), Roman statesman and historian |
| Diog. Laert. | Diogenes Laertius (? early 3rd cent. AD), Greek philosophical writer and biographer |
| Dion. Hal. | Dionysius Halicarnassensis (1st cent. BC–1st
cent. AD), Rome-based Greek rhetorician
and historian Ant. Rom.: Antiquitates Romanae |
| Drucker | M. Drucker, Der verbannte Dichter und der Kaiser-Gott: Studien zu Ovids späten Elegien, Diss. Heidelberg, 1977 |
| DS | Diodorus Siculus (fl. 1st cent. BC), Greek historian |
| Enc. Brit.11 | Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., Cambridge/New York, 1910 |
| Enn. | Q. Ennius (239–169 BC), of Rudiae in
Calabria, Roman epic poet Ann.: Annales |
| Eur. | Euripides (c. 485–c. 406 BC), Athenian tragic
playwright Androm.: Andromache Bacch.: Bacchae Hel.: Helena HF: Hercules Furens Med.: Medea Orest.: Orestes Phoen.: Phoenissae |
| Euseb. Chron. | Eusebi Chronicorum canonum quae supersunt, ed. A. Schoene, 2 vols., 1866, 1875, repr. Dublin/Zürich, 1967 |
| Evans PC | H. B. Evans, Publica Carmina: Ovid’s Books from Exile, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1983 |
| Evans WW | H. B. Evans, ‘Winter and warfare in Ovid’s Tomis (Tristia 3.10)’, CJ 70 (1975), pp. 1–9 |
| Fairweather | J. Fairweather, ‘Ovid’s autobiographical poem, Tristia 4.10’, CQ 37 (1987), pp. 181–96 |
| Florus | Publius Annius Florus (late 1st to early 2nd cent. AD), Roman historian and poet |
| Focardi | G. Focardi, ‘Difesa, preghiera, ironia nel II libro dei Tristia di Ovidio’, SIFC 47 (1975), pp. 86–129 |
| Fränkel | H. Fränkel, Ovid: A Poet between Two Worlds (Sather Classical Lectures, vol. 18), Univ. of California Press, 1945 |
| Fredericks (= Nagle, q.v.) | ‘Tristia 4.10: Poet’s autobiography and poetic autobiography’, TAPhA 106 (1976), pp. 139–54 |
| Froesch OEP | H. Froesch, ‘Ovids Epistulae ex Ponto I–III als Gedichtsammlung’, Diss. Bonn, 1968 |
| Froesch ODE | H. Froesch, Ovid als Dichter des Exils, Bonn, 1976 |
| Galasso (1987) | L. Galasso, ‘Modelli tragici e ricodificazione elegiaca. Appunti sulla poesia ovidiana dell’esilio’, MD 18 (1987), pp. 83–99 |
| G&R | Greece and Rome |
| Goold (see also Wheeler-Goold) | G. P. Goold, ‘The cause of Ovid’s exile’, Illinois Class. Stud. 8 (1983), pp. 94–107 |
| Green AA | Peter Green, Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age, Berkeley/London, rev. ed. 1993. |
| Green AM | Peter Green, Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 BC: A Historical Biography, Harmondsworth, 1974, repr. Univ. of California Press, 1991 |
| Green CB | Peter Green, Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture, London/New York, 1989 |
| Green CE | Peter Green, ‘Carmen et Error: πρόϕασις and αἰτία in the matter of Ovid’s exile’, CA 2 (1982), pp. 202–20 |
| Green OEP | Peter Green, Ovid: The Erotic Poems, Harmondsworth, 1982 |
| Green SP | Peter Green, The Shadow of the Parthenon: Studies in Ancient History and Literature, Univ. of California Press, 1972 |
| Hall | J. B. Hall, P. Ovidi: Nasonis Tristia. Stuttgart & Leipzig (Teubner) 1995. |
| Hdt. | Herodotus Halicarnassensis (c. 485–c. 425 BC), Greek historian |
| Helzle (1) | M. Helzle, ‘Mr and Mrs Ovid’, G&R 36 (1989), pp. 183–93 |
| Helzle (2) | M. Helzle, ‘Ovid’s poetics of exile’, Illinois Class. Stud. 13 (1988), pp. 73–83 |
| Helzle (3) | M. Helzle, Publii Ovidii Nasonis Epistularum ex Ponto liber IV: A Commentary on Poems 1–7 and 16, Hildesheim, 1989 |
| Herescu | N. I. Herescu, ‘Ovide, le Gétique (Pont. IV.13.18: paene poeta Getes)’, ACIO vol. i, pp. 55–80 [cf. Orpheus 7 (1960), pp. 1–26] |
| Herrmann | K. Herrmann, De Ovidii Tristium libris V, Diss. Leipzig, 1924 |
| Hes. | Hesiodus (fl. 8th–7th cent. BC), early Greek
didactic poet Theog.: Theogonia WD: Works & Days (Opera et Dies) |
| HH | Hymni Homerici |
| Hom. | Homerus (fl. 8th cent. BC), Greek epic poet Il.: Ilias Od.: Odyssea |
| Hor. | Q. Horatius Flaccus (65–8 BC), Roman
lyric poet and satirist AP: Ars Poetica Carm. Saec.: Carmen Saeculare Ep.: Epistulae Odes (Carm.): Odes (Carmina) Sat.: Saturae, Sermones |
| Housman CP | J. Diggle & F. R. D. Goodyear, The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman, vol. iii, 1915–1936, Cambridge, 1972 |
| Hyg. | Hyginus (?2nd–3rd cent. AD), Roman
mythographer Fab.: Fabulae |
| Isocr. | Isocrates (436–338 BC), Athenian educationalist |
| Juv. | D. Iunius Iuuenalis (c. AD 55–c. 130),
Roman satirist Sat.: Saturae |
| Kenney (1) | E. J. Kenney, ‘The poetry of Ovid’s exile’, PCPhS 11 (1965), pp. 37–49 |
| Kenney (2) | E. J. Kenney, ‘Ovid’, Cambridge History of Classical Literature, vol. ii, Cambridge, 1982, pp. 420–57, esp. pp. 441ff. |
| Kenney (3) | E. J. Kenney, art. ‘Ovid’ in OCD2, pp. 763–5 |
| Labate | M. Labate, ‘Elegia triste e elegia lieta: un caso di rinconversione letteraria’, MD 19 (1987), pp. 91–129 |
| Laus. Pison. | Laus Pisonis, Latin panegyric (?1st cent. AD), author unknown |
| Lee | A. G. Lee, ‘An appreciation of Tristia III.8’, G&R 18 (1949), pp. 113–20 |
| Little | D. Little, ‘Ovid’s last poems: cry of pain from exile or literary frolic in Rome?’, Prudentia 22 (1990), pp. 23–39 |
| Liv(y) | T. Livius Patavinus (?59 BC–?AD 17),
Roman historian per.: periochae |
| Lozovan OB | E. Lozovan, ‘Ovide et le bilingualisme’, Ovidiana, pp. 396–403 |
| Lozovan RP | E. Lozovan, ‘Réalités Pontiques et nécessités littéraires chez Ovide’, ACIO vol. ii, pp. 355–70 |
| Lucian | Lucianus Sophista (b. c. AD 120), of
Samosata, Greek satirist Adv. Indoct.: Adversus Indoctum Tox.: Toxaris |
| Luck Tr. i | G. Luck, P. Ovidius Naso, Tristia, vol. i (Text), Heidelberg, 1967 |
| Luck Tr. ii | G. Luck, P. Ovidius Naso, Tristia, vol. ii (Commentary), Heidelberg, 1977 |
| Lucr. | T. Lucretius Carus (?94–?55 BC), Roman didactic poet |
| Marchesi | C. Marchesi, ‘Il II libro ovidiano dei Tristia’, Atene e Roma 15 (1912), pp. 159–67 |
| Marg | W. Marg, ‘Zur Behandlung des Augustus in den Tristien’, ACIO vol. ii, pp. 345–54 |
| Marshall | A. J. Marshall, ‘Library resources and creative writing at Rome’, Phoenix 30 (1976), pp. 252–64 |
| Mart. | M. Valerius Martialis (c. AD 40–c.104), Spanish-born Roman epigrammatist |
| Martini | E. Martini, ‘Zu Ovids und Kallimachos’ Ibis’, Phil Woch. 52 (1932), pp. 1101–8 |
| MD | Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici (Pisa) |
| Meiser | R. Meiser, ‘Ueber Ovids Begnadigungsgesuch (Trist. II)’, SBAW (1907), pp. 171–205 |
| Mnemos. | Mnemosyne |
| Nagle | B. R. Nagle, The Poetics of Exile: Program and Polemic in the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto of Ovid (Coll. Latomus, vol. 170), Brussels, 1980 |
| Némethy EP | G. Némethy, Commentarius exegeticus ad Ovidii Epistulas ex Ponto, Budapest, 1915 |
| Némethy SC | G. Némethy, Supplementum commentariorum ad Ovidii Amores Tristia et Epistulas ex Ponto, Budapest, 1922 |
| Némethy Tr. | G. Némethy, Commentarius exegeticus ad Ovidii Tristia, Budapest, 1913 |
| Nep. | Cornelius Nepos (c. 99–c. 24 BC),
Gallic-born Roman biographer Them.: Themistocles |
| OCD2 | Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1970 |
| OLD | Oxford Latin Dictionary, ed. P. G. W. Glare, Oxford, 1968–82 |
| Ovid | Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC–AD 17/18),
Roman poet and exile AA: Ars Amatoria Am.: Amores EP: Epistulae ex Ponto Fast.: Fasti Her.: Heroides Met.: Metamorphoses Rem.: Remedia Amoris Tr.: Tristia |
| Ovidiana | N. I. Herescu, ed., Ovidiana: Recherches sur Ovide, Paris, 1958 |
| Ovidianum | N. Barbu, E. Dobroiu, M. Nasta, eds., Ovidianum: Acta conventus omnium gentium ovidianis studiis fovendis, Bucharest, 1976 |
| Owen Tr. I | S. G. Owen, Tristia Book I, 2nd rev. ed., Oxford, 1890 |
| Owen Tr. II | S. G. Owen, P. Ovidi Nasonis Tristium Liber Secundus, Oxford, 1924 |
| Owen Tr. III | S. G. Owen, Ovid: Tristia Book III, Oxford, 1889 |
| Paneg. Mess. | Panegyricus ad Messallam |
| Paus. | Pausanias Periegeta (?of Lydia), fl. AD 150, Greek travel-writer |
| PCPhS | Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society |
| Pers. Sat. | Aulus Persius Flaccus (AD 34–62), Roman author of Saturae |
| Phaedr. | Phaedrus (c. 15 BC–c. AD 50), freedman of Augustus, fabulist |
| Phil. Woch | Philologische Wochenschrift |
| Pind. | Pindarus Lyricus (518–438 BC), Boeotian
lyric poet Isthm.: Isthmian Odes Pyth.: Pythian Odes |
| PIR1 | Prosopographia Imperii Romani Saeculi I, II, III, 1st ed., ed. E. Klebs, H. Dessau, Berlin, 1897–8 |
| PIR2 | Prosopographia Imperii Romani Saeculi I, II, III, 2nd ed., ed. E. Groag, A. Stein, Berlin & Leipzig, 1933– |
| Plat. | Plato, son of Ariston (c. 429–347 BC),
Athenian philosopher Apol.: Apologia Crit.: Crito Phaedr.: Phaedrus Rep.: Republic |
| Platner-Ashby | S. B. Platner & T. Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, Oxford, 1929 |
| Plaut. | Titus Maccius Plautus (fl. 3rd cent. BC),
Roman comic playwright Rud.: Rudens |
| Plin. Ep. | C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus (c. AD 61–c.112), Roman lawyer and administrator, Epistulae (his public and literary correspondence) |
| Plin. HN | C. Plinius Secundus (AD 23/4–79), uncle of the foregoing: administrator and scholar, published a Historia Naturalis in 37 books |
| Plut. | Mestrius(?) Plutarchus of Chaeronea in
Boeotia (c. AD 50–c. 120), Greek
philosopher and biographer Aem. Paul.: Aemilius Paullus Ant.: Antonius Arist.: Aristides Caes.: Julius Caesar Cat. Maj.: Cato Major Lucull.: Lucullus Marcell.: Marcellus Mar.: Marius Mor(al).: Moralia Pomp.: Pompeius Rom.: Romulus Sull.: Sulla Them.: Themistocles Timol.: Timoleon |
| Priap. | Priapea: collection of Augustan date: ‘priapic’ poems, one at least by Ovid |
| Prop. | Sextus Propertius (54/47 ?a. 2 BC), from Assisi in Umbria: Roman elegiac poet |
| PWK | Real-Encyclopädie d. klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, ed. A. Pauly, G. Wissowa, W. Kroll, K. Ziegler, Stuttgart—München, 1893–1972 [S-B = Supplement-Band] |
| Res Gest. | See ‘Aug. Res Gest.’ |
| Richmond | J. A. Richmond, P. Ovidi Nasonis Ex Ponto Libri Quattuor, Leipzig, 1990 |
| Richmond STP | J. A. Richmond, ‘Some textual problems in Ovid’s Ex Ponto’, BICS Suppl. 5 (1988), pp. 111–17 |
| SBAW | Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phil.-Hist. Klasse |
| schol. | scholium or scholiast |
| Scholte | A. Scholte, Ex Ponto Liber I, herausgegeben und erklärt (Diss. Groningen), Amersfoort 1933 |
| Schubert | W. Schubert, ‘Zu Ovid, Trist. 3.9’, Gymnasium 97 (1990), pp. 154–64 |
| Sen. (1) | L. Annaeus Seneca [the Elder] (c. 55 BC–c.
AD 40), Spanish-born Roman historian and
rhetorician Controv.: Controversiae Suas.: Suasoriae |
| Sen. (2) | L. Annaeus Seneca [the Younger] (c. AD
1–65, son of the foregoing, Roman
philosopher and tragedian Benef.: De Beneficiis Cons. ad Helv.: Consolatio ad Helviam Dial.: Dialogi Epigr.: Epigrammata Ep.: Epistulae |
| Serv. | M. Servius Honoratus (4th cent. AD), author of a Commentary on Virgil |
| Shackleton Bailey (1) | D. R. Shackleton Bailey, ‘Ovidiana’, CQ 48 (1954), pp. 165–70 |
| Shackleton Bailey (2) | D. R. Shackleton Bailey, ‘Notes on Ovid’s poems from exile’, CQ 32 (1982), pp. 390–98 |
| SIFC | Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica |
| Soph. | Sophocles, son of Sophilos (496–406 BC),
Athenian tragedian Aj.: Ajax OT: Oedipus Tyrannus Trach.: Trachiniae |
| Staffhorst | U. Staffhorst, Publius Ovidius Naso: Epistulae ex Ponto III, 1–3 (Kommentar), Diss. Würzburg, 1965 |
| Strabo | Strabo of Amaseia (64/3 BC–AD 25?), Stoic historian and geographer |
| Stud. Ovid. | F. Arnaldi & others, Studi Ovidiani, Rome, 1959 |
| Suda | Title of Greek encyclopedic lexicon (c. AD 1000): formerly supposed to have been written by ‘Suidas’. |
| Suet. | C. Suetonius Tranquillus (a. AD 69–c. AD
130), Roman imperial administrator and
biographer Calig.: Caligula De [Illustr.]: De [Illustribus] Gramm.: Grammaticis Div. Aug.: Divus Augustus Div. Jul.: Divus Julius Div. Claud.: Divus Claudius Tib.: Tiberius Vitell.: Vitellius |
| Syme HO | R. Syme, History in Ovid, Oxford 1978 |
| Tac. | Cornelius Tacitus (c. AD 56–c. 120), Roman
historian Ann.: Annales Hist.: Historiae |
| TAPhA | Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association |
| Tibull. | Albius Tibullus (b. c. 50 BC), Roman elegiac poet |
| Val. Max. | Valerius Maximus (fl. 1st cent. AD): Roman historian and rhetorician |
| Vell. Pat. | Velleius Paterculus (c. 19 BC–AD 30/35): Roman soldier and author of Historiae Romanae |
| Virg. | P. Vergilius Maro (70–19 BC), Roman
pastoral and epic poet Aen.: Aeneid Ecl.: Eclogues Georg.: Georgics (Vit. Donat.): Vita Donati (the Life of Virgil by Aelius Donatus) |
| Vulpe | R. Vulpe, ‘Ovidio nella città dell’esilio’, Stud. Ovid., pp. 41–62 |
| Watt | W. S. Watt, ‘Notes on Ovid’s poems from exile’, Illinois Classical Studies 13 (1988), pp. 85–93 |
| Wheeler, ‘Topics’ | A. L. Wheeler, ‘Topics from the life of Ovid’, AJPh 46 (1925), pp. 1–28 |
| Wheeler-Goold | A. L. Wheeler, Tristia, Ex Ponto (London, 1924): 2nd ed., rev. G. P. Goold, London/Cambridge, 1988 |
| Wiedemann | T. Wiedemann, ‘The political background to Ovid’s Tristia II’, CQ 25 (1975), pp. 264–71 |
| Wilkinson | L. P. Wilkinson, Ovid Recalled, Cambridge, 1955 |
| Witt | R. E. Witt, Isis in the Graeco-Roman World, London/Ithaca, NY, 1971 |