The abbreviations below are used for oft-cited books and reference works. All other references to modern works consist of author’s name and the date of publication; full citations can be found in the bibliography at the end of this volume. In transliterating Greek, it has seemed reasonable, if not entirely consistent, to use a Latinized spelling for names for which this has become “normal” English usage (e.g. “Heracles”) and in other cases to use a direct transliteration from the Greek.
| ABV | J.D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase Painters (Oxford 1956) |
| ARV | J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase Painters (2nd edn,Oxford 1963) |
| FGrH | F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (Berlin/Leiden 1923–58) |
| FHG | C. and T. Müller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, 4 vols. (Paris 1841) |
| GMPT | H.D. Betz, ed. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation (Chicago 1986) |
| IG | Inscriptiones Graecae (Berlin 1873–present) |
| LdÄ | Lexikon der Ägyptologie |
| LIMC | Lexikon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (Zurich 1981–present) |
| LSJ | H.G. Liddell, R. Scott and H.S. Jones eds. Greek-English Lexicon with a Supplement (9th edn, Oxford 1968) |
| MAMA | Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua (Manchester 1928–61) |
| PDM | Demotic Egyptian magical papyri translated in GMPT |
| PGM | K. Preisendanz [and A. Henrichs] eds. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die griechischen Zauberpapyri (2nd edn, Stuttgart 1973–74) |
| RE | Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (Stuttgart 1894–1980) |
| SEG | Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (Leiden 1923–present) |
| Urk. II | K. Sethe ed., Urkunden des ägyptischen Altertums. Section II: Hierglyphische Urkunden der griechisch-römischen Zeit (1904–16) |