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* = The poems of The Epic Cycle and the Hesiodic fragments have been indicated following the numbering given in H. G. Evelyn-White's translation (Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica, Loeb Classical Library, 1982). The same applies to Mimnermus, translated by J. M. Edmonds (Elegy and Iambus, Loeb Classical Library, 1961). The sources behind those numbered fragments follow the abbreviation.


  • Ael.VH. = Aelian, Varia Historia
  • Aes.Aga. = Aeschylus, Agamemnon.
  • Aes.Eum. = Aeschylus, Eumenides.
  • Aes.LB. = Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers.
  • Aes.Pro. = Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound.
  • Aes.Sev. = Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes.
  • Aes.Supp. = Aeschylus, The Suppliant Maidens.
  • *AETH. = The Aethiopis (The Epic Cycle).
    • 1 = Proclus, Chrestomathia, 2.
    • 3 = Schol. on Pindar, Isth. 3.53.
  • AO. = [Orpheus], Argonautica Orphica.
  • Apd. = Apollodorus, Library.
  • Apd.Ep. = Apollodorus, Library "Epitome".
  • Apu.Tra. = Apuleius. The Golden Ass.
  • Ara.Phae. = Aratus of Soli, Phaenomena.
  • Arg. = Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica.
  • Ari.Birds. = Aristophanes, The Birds.
  • Ath. = Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae.
  • Cal.Ap. = Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo.
  • Cal.Ar. = Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis.
  • Cal.BP. = Callimachus, On the Bath of Pallas.
  • Cal.Del. = Callimachus, Hymn to Delos.
  • Cal.Dem. = Callimachus, Hymn to Demeter.
  • Cal.Ze. = Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus.
  • Call. = Callistratus, Descriptions
  • Cic.ND. = Cicero, De Natura Deorum (The Nature of the Gods).
  • Clem.EG. = Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Greeks.
  • Col. = Colluthus, The Rape of Helen.
  • Con. = Conon, Narratives (Diegeseis).
  • *CYP. = The Cypria (The Epic Cycle).
    • 1 = Proclus, Chrestomathy, 1.
    • 3 = Schol. on Homer, Il.1.5.
    • 5 = Schol. on Homer, Il.17.140.
    • 7 = Clement of Alexandria, Protrept 2.30.5.
    • 8 = Athenaeus, 8.334 B.
    • 9 = Schol. on Eur. Andr.898.
    • 11 = Schol. on Homer, Il.3.242.
    • 12 = Schol. on Pindar, Nem.10.114.
  • DH. = Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities.
  • Dio. = Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History.
  • Epict. = Arrian's Discourses of Epictetus (Epicteti Dissertationes).
  • *EPIG. = The Epigoni (The Epic Cycle).
    • 2 = Photius, Lexicon.
    • 3 = Schol. on Ap. Rhod. 1.308.
  • Eur.Alc. = Euripides, Alcestis.
  • Eur.And. = Euripides, Andromache.
  • Eur.Bacc. = Euripides, Bacchanals.
  • Eur.Cyc. = Euripides, Cyclops.
  • Eur.Ele. = Euripides, Electra.
  • Eur.Hcl. = Euripides, Heraclides.
  • Eur.Hec. = Euripides, Hecabe.
  • Eur.Hel. = Euripides, Helen.
  • Eur.Her. = Euripides, Heracles.
  • Eur.Hipp. = Euripides, Hippolytus.
  • Eur.Ion. = Euripides, Ion.
  • Eur.IA. = Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis.
  • Eur.IT. = Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris.
  • Eur.Med. = Euripides, Medea.
  • Eur.Ore. = Euripides, Orestes.
  • Eur.Phoe. = Euripides, Phoenician Women.
  • Eur.Rhe. = Euripides, Rhesus.
  • Eur.Supp. = Euripides, Suppliants.
  • Eur.Tro. = Euripides, Daughters of Troy.
  • Gell. = Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights.
  • Hdt. = Herodotus, History.
  • *Hes.Aeg. = Hesiod, Aegimius.
    • 4 = Herodian in Stephanus of Byzantium.
    • 6 = Scholiast on Homer, Il.24.24.
  • *Hes.Ast. = Hesiod, Astronomy.
    • 1 = Scholiast on Pindar, Nem.2.16.
    • 2 = Scholiast on Aratus 254.
    • 3 = Pseudo-Eratosthenes Catast. frag. 1.
    • 4 = Pseudo-Eratosthenes Catast. frag. 32.
  • *Hes.CW. = Hesiod, Catalogues of Women ("Appendix" in H. G. Evelyn-White's translation.)
    • 19A = Oxyrhynchus Papyri 1358 fr. 1 (3rd cent. A.D.)
    • 40A = Oxyrhynchus Papyri 1358 fr. 2.
  • *Hes.CWE. = Hesiod, Catalogues of Women and Eoiae.
    • 1 = Scholiast on Arg.3.1086.
    • 2 = Ioannes Lydus, de Mens.1.13.
    • 3 = Constantinus Porphyrogenitus, de Them. 2 p. 48 B.
    • 4 = Plutarch, Mor. p. 747; Schol. on Pindar Pyth. 4.263.
    • 6 = Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg.1.482.
    • 7 = Berlin Papyri 7497 and Oxyrhynchus Papyri, 421.
    • 8 = Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius Arg.4.57.
    • 9 = Scholiast Ven. on Homer, Il.11.750.
    • 11 = Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Gerenia.
    • 12 = Eustathius, Hom.1796.39.
    • 13 = Scholiast on Homer, Od.12.69.
    • 14 = Petrie Papyri (ed. Mahaffy), Pl.III.4.
    • 19 = Scholiast on Homer, Il.12.292.
    • 20 = Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg.2.178.
    • 24 = Scholiast on Homer, Il.23.679.
    • 25 = Herodian in Etymologicum Magnum, p. 60, 40.
    • 27 = Scholiast on Homer, Il.7.9.
    • 31 = Strabo, 5. p. 221.
    • 38 = "Eratosthenes", Catast.19. p. 124.
    • 39 = Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg.2.181.
    • 47 = Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg.4.892.
    • 49 = Scholiast on Homer, Od.7.54.
    • 58 = Strassburg Greek Papyri 55 (2nd cent. A.D.)
    • 63 = Pausanias, 2.26.7.
    • 65 = Scholiast on Pindar, Oly.9.79.
    • 66 = Scholiast on Pindar, Nem.10.150.
    • 67 = Scholiast on Euripides, Orestes 249.
    • 68 = Berlin Papyri, 9739-10560.
    • 69 = Tzetzes, Exeg. Iliad. 68. 19 H.
    • 70 = Laurentian Scholiast on Sophocles' Electra 539.
    • 72 = Eustathius, Hom.13.44.sq.
    • 79 = Schol. on Soph.Trach.266.
    • 83 = Tzetzes, Schol. in Exeg. Iliad. 126.
    • 84 = Scholiast on Homer, Od.11.326.
    • 86 = Eustathius, Hom. 1623. 44.
    • 89 = Schol. on Pindar, Pyth.3.48.
    • 91 = Philodemus, On Piety, 34.
    • 96 = Palaephatus, c.42.
    • 98 = Berlin Papyri, No. 9777.
    • 99A = Schol. on Homer, Iliad.23.679.
    • 99 = Papyri greci e latine, No. 131 (2nd-3rd century).
  • *Hes.DF. = Hesiod, Doubtful Fragments.
    • 5 = Servius on Vergil, Aen.4.484.
  • *Hes.Fra. = Hesiod, Fragments [of Unknown Position.]
    • 1 = Diogenes Laertius, 8.1.25.
    • 2 = Schol. on Homer, Odyssey, 4.232.
  • *Hes.GE. = Hesiod, The Great Eoiae.
    • 6 = Schol. on Pindar, Pyth.4.35.
    • 11 = Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg.4.57.
    • 12 = Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg.1.118.
    • 13 = Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg.4.828.
    • 15 = Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg.1.1122.
  • *Hes.ID. = Hesiod, The Idaean Dactyls.
    • 1 = Pliny, Natural History 7.56, 197 and Clement, Stromateis 1.16.75.
  • *Hes.Mel. = Hesiod, The Melampodia.
    • 1 = Strabo, 14. p. 642.
    • 2 = Tzetzes on Lycophron, 682.
    • 3 = Scholiast on Homer, Odyssey 10.494.
    • 8 = Strabo, 14. p. 676.
  • Hes.SH. = Hesiod, Shield of Heracles.
  • Hes.The. = Hesiod, Theogony.
  • Hes.WD. = Hesiod, Works and Days.
  • Hom.Aph. = Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite.
  • Hom.Apo. = Homeric Hymn to Apollo.
  • Hom.Ar. = Homeric Hymn to Ares.
  • Hom.Asc. = Homeric Hymn to Asclepius.
  • Hom.Dem. = Homeric Hymn to Demeter.
  • Hom.Dion. = Homeric Hymn to Dionysus.
  • Hom.Hel. = Homeric Hymn to Helius.
  • Hom.Herm. = Homeric Hymn to Hermes.
  • Hom.Il. = Homer, Iliad.
  • Hom.Od. = Homer, Odyssey.
  • Hom.Pan. = Homeric Hymn to Pan.
  • Hom.Sel. = Homeric Hymn to Selene.
  • Hyg.Ast. = Hyginus, Poetica Astronomica.
  • Hyg.Fab. = Hyginus, Fabulae.
  • Hyg.Pre. = Hyginus, Fabulae, "Preface".
  • *LI. = The Little Iliad (The Epic Cycle).
    • 13 = Aristoph. Lysistr. 155 and Schol.
    • 14 = Schol. Lycophr. Alex. 1268.
  • Lib.Met. = Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses.
  • Long. = Longus, Daphnis and Chloe.
  • Man. = Manilius, Astronomica.
  • *Mimn. = Mimnermus, Elegies, Nanno, Fragments.
  • Nonn. = Nonnus, Dionysiaca.
  • *OED. = Oedipodea (The Epic Cycle).
    • 3 = Schol. on Eur.Phoen.1750.
  • Ov.AA. = Ovid, Artis Amatoriae.
  • Ov.Fast. = Ovid, Fasti.
  • Ov.Her. = Ovid, Heroides.
  • Ov.Met. = Ovid, Metamorphoses.
  • Ov.Pont = Epistulae ex Ponto.
  • Parth. = Parthenius of Nicaea, Love Romances.
  • Pau. = Pausanias, Description of Greece.
  • Phil.Im. = Philostratus, Imagines.
  • Phil.VA. = Flavius Philostratus, Vita Apollonii (Life of Apollonius of Tyana).
  • Pin.Isth. = Pindar, Isthmian Odes.
  • Pin.Nem. = Pindar, Nemean Odes.
  • Pin.Oly. = Pindar, Olympian Odes.
  • Pin.Pyth. = Pindar, Pythian Odes.
  • Pla.Apo. = Plato, Apology
  • Pla.Cra. = Plato, Cratylus
  • Pla.Cri. = Plato, Critias.
  • Pla.Euth = Plato, Euthyphro.
  • Pla.Gorg. = Plato, Gorgias.
  • Pla.Ion = Plato, Ion.
  • Pla.Laws = Plato, Laws.
  • Pla.Phaedo = Plato, Phaedo.
  • Pla.Phae. = Plato, Phaedrus.
  • Pla.Pro. = Plato, Protagoras.
  • Pla.Rep. = Plato, Republic.
  • Pla.Soph. = Plato, Sophist.
  • Pla.Sta. = Plato, Statesman.
  • Pla.Sym. = Plato, Symposium.
  • Pla.Tim. = Plato, Timaeus.
  • Plu.GQ. = Plutarch, Moralia (Greek Questions).
  • Plu.Mor. = Plutarch, Moralia.
  • Plu.PS. = Plutarch, Moralia (Greek and Roman Parallel Stories).
  • Plu.Sup. = Plutarch, Moralia (Superstition).
  • Plu.Alc. = Plutarch, Parallel Lives (Alcibiades).
  • Plu.Cim. = Plutarch, Parallel Lives (Cimon).
  • Plu.Lys. = Plutarch, Parallel Lives (Lysander).
  • Plu.Num. = Plutarch, Parallel Lives (Numa).
  • Plu.Pyrrh. = Plutarch, Parallel Lives (Pyrrhus).
  • Plu.Rom. = Plutarch, Parallel Lives (Romulus).
  • Plu.RQ. = Plutarch, Moralia (Roman Questions).
  • Plu.Sol. = Plutarch, Parallel Lives (Solon).
  • Plu.The. = Plutarch, Parallel Lives (Theseus).
  • Prop. = Propertius, Elegies.
  • QS. = Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy.
  • *RET. = The Returns (The Epic Cycle).
    • 1 = Proclus, Chrestomathia.
    • 2 = Argument to Eur., Medea.
    • 4 = Eustathius, 1796. 45.
    • 6 = Athenaeus 281B.
  • *SI. = The Sack of Ilium (The Epic Cycle).
    • 1 = Proclus, Chrestomathia.
    • 4 = Schol. on Eur. Troades 31.
    • 5 = Eustathius on Iliad 13.515.
  • Soph.Aj. = Sophocles, Ajax.
  • Soph.Ant. = Sophocles, Antigone.
  • Soph.Ele. = Sophocles, Electra.
  • Soph.OC. = Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus.
  • Soph.OT. = Sophocles, Oedipus the King.
  • Soph.Phi. = Sophocles, Philoctetes.
  • Soph.Tra. = Sophocles, Trachinian Women.
  • Stat.Achil. = Statius, Achilleid.
  • Stat.Theb. = Statius, Thebaid.
  • Strab. = Strabo, Geography.
  • Strab.Fra. = Strabo, Geography, Fragments of Book VII.
  • *TEL. = The Telegony (The Epic Cycle).
    • 1 = Proclus, Chrestomathia.
    • 2 = Eustathius, 1796. 35.
  • *TIT. = The Titanomachy.(The Epic Cycle).
    • 1 = Photius, Epitome of the Chrestomathy of Proclus.
    • 2 = Anecdota Oxon. (Cramer) 1.75.
    • 3 = Schol. on Ap.Rhod.1.1165.
    • 6 = Schol. on Ap.Rhod.1.554.
  • Try. = Tryphiodorus, The Taking of Ilios.
  • Val. = Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica.
  • Vir.Aen. = Virgil, Aeneid.
  • Vir.Geo. = Virgil, Georgics.

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The "Addendum" in some pages may contain some additional abbreviations:

  • Eratosthenes, Catast. = Eratosthenes, Katasterismoi.
  • Fulg.Myth. = Fulgentius, Mitologiae tres libri.
  • Phil.Her. = Philostratus, Heroicus.
  • Pto.Heph. = Ptolemy Hephaestion (Ptolemy Chennus--in Photius).
  • Roscher, Lex. = W. H. Roscher: Ausfürliches Lexikon der griechischen un römischen Mytologie.
  • Serv. on Vir.Aen = Servius on Virgil's Aeneid.



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