Fortification tablets.
PFS = Persepolis Fortification (cylinder) seal [*=inscribed]: Mark B. Garrison and Margaret Cool Root, Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets. Vol. 1, Images of Heroic Encounter (Chicago: Oriental Institute Publications 117, 2001).
PT = Persepolis Treasury tablets: George C. Cameron, Persepolis Treasury Tablets (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948).
Much of this material can be found in English translation in Amélie Kuhrt, The Persian Empire. A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period (London and New York: Routledge, 2007).
2) Ancient authors
Abbreviations for Greek and Latin authors are those found in the Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th edition (https://oxfordre.com/classics/page/abbreviation‐list/). The following additional abbreviations are used in this encyclopedia:
| [Arist.] Ath. pol. | Athenaiōn Politeia (Constitution of the Athenians), attributed to Aristotle |
| Gr. Anth. | W. R. Paton, ed. The Greek Anthology. 5 vols. (Loeb Classical Library) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1927–28. |
| Heraclid. Lemb. | Heraclides Lembus: Mervin R. Dilts, ed. Heraclidis Lembi: Excerpta Politiarum. Durham, NC: Duke University, 1971. |
| Hesiod fragments | see M‐W (§1, above) |
| Marcellin. Vit. Thuc. | Marcellinus, Life of Thucydides |
| Phot. Bibl. | René Henry, ed. Photius: Bibliothèque. 8 vols. Paris: Belles Lettres, 1959–77. (Cited by Codex number, “Bekker page,” and Henry volume.) |
| Pindar fragments | see S‐M (§1, above) |
| Plutarch, DHM | De Herodoti malignitate, “On the Malice of Herodotus” (Plut. Mor. 854e–874c) |
| Ps.‐Scylax | Graham Shipley. Pseudo‐Skylax’s Periplous: The Circumnavigation of the Inhabited World. Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2011. 2nd edition, Liverpool University Press, 2019. (Greek text, English translation, commentary.) |
| Ps.‐Scymnus | a geographical treatise (Periegesis) of the first century bce attributed to Scymnus of Chios; see Didier Marcotte (ed.), Géographes grecs. Vol. I, Introduction générale. Ps.‐Scymnos: Circuit de la Terre. Paris: Belles Lettres, 2002. |
| Strabo | Stefan Radt, ed. Strabons Geographika. 9 vols. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002–10. Strabo is cited by book, chapter, and section, plus “Casaubon page” (C###); the latter are included since Radt’s commentary is keyed to them. Fragments of Book 7 are given according to Radt’s new numbering (see the concordance in vol. 6, pp. 332–37). The most recent English translation of Strabo follows Radt’s numbering: Duane W. Roller, The Geography of Strabo (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). |
| Suda | Ada Adler, ed. Suidae Lexicon. 5 vols. Leipzig: Teubner, 1928–38. Citations of the Suda include the “Adler number,” which is helpful in tracking down the English translations of Suda entries, available online: https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/ sol‐html/ |
3) Journals
| AA | Archäologischer Anzeiger |
| AAWW | Anzeiger der philosophisch‐historischen Klasse / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien |
| ABSA | Annual of the British School at Athens |
| AC | L’Antiquité classique |
| AClass | Acta classica (Proceedings of the Classical Association of South Africa) |
| AHB | Ancient History Bulletin |
| AHR | American Historical Review |
| AH:RfT | Ancient History: Resources for Teachers |
| AIIN | Annali dell’Istituto Italiano di Numismatica |
| AION (Archaeol.) | Annali di archeologia e storia antica (Napoli) |
| AION (Ling.) | Annali dell’Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, Dipartimento di Studi del Mondo classico e del Mediterraneo antico. Sezione linguistica. |
| AJA | American Journal of Archaeology |
| AJAH | American Journal of Ancient History |
| AJN | American Journal of Numismatics |
| AJPh | American Journal of Philology |
| AMIran | Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran |
| AMI(T) | Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan |
| AncSoc | Ancient Society |
| AncW | Ancient World |
| AR | Archaeological Reports (London) |
| ARTA | Achaemenid Research on Text and Archaeology |
