ABSTRACT
Antoninus Liberalis C2 CE Greek mythographer, Metamorphoses (‘Transformations’). Appian C2 CE Greek historian, Mithridatic Wars. Arrian C2 CE Greek historian, Anabasis. Berossus C3 Babylonian scholar (writing in Greek), Babyloniaca. Cicero C1 Roman orator and philosopher, Verrine Orations, De divinatione. Ctesias C4 Greek historian, Persica. Curtius (Quintus Curtius Rufus) C1 CE Roman historian, History of Alexander. Diodorus Siculus C1 Greek historian, Bibliotheke (‘Library’). Ephorus C4 historian, Historiae. Eusebius C3-4 CE Greek chronicler and biblical scholar, Chronicles. Hecataeus C6-5 Greek geographer and mythographer; fragments of geographical and
mythographical works survive. Hellenica Oxyrhynchia Two sets of C2 papyrus fragments found at Oxyrhynchus in
Egypt. Herodotus C5 Greek historian, Historiae. Hesiod C7 Greek poet, Theogony (‘Genealogy’). Hierocles’ Synekdemos C5(?) CE list of cities of the eastern Roman empire. Homer C8 Greek epic poet, Iliad and Odyssey. Homeric Hymns Greek poems (probably of C7 date) composed in the epic metre, by
unknown authors, honouring various deities. Josephus C1 CE Jewish historian, Against Apion, Jewish Antiquities. Justin C2, C3, or C4 CE Roman historian, Epitome (i.e. abridged version) of the
Historiae Philippicae (‘Philippic Histories’) of Pompeius Trogus. Livy C1 BCE-CE Roman historian, Ab urbe condita libri (‘Books from the Foundation
of the City’). Menecrates of Xanthus C4 Greek historian, Lykiaka (‘Lycian Matters’). Ovid C1 BCE-CE Roman poet, Metamorphoses. Pausanias C2 CE Greek travel writer, Description of Greece. Pliny the Elder C1 CE Roman encyclopaedist, Naturalis Historia. Plutarch C1-2 CE Greek philosopher and biographer, Lives of Alexander, Artaxerxes I,
Cimon, Pericles, Solon. Polyaenus C2 CE Greek rhetorician, Strategemata (‘Stratagems’). Polybius C2 Greek historian, Historiae. Pomponius Mela C1 CE Roman geographer, Chorographia (‘Description of Regions’).
Pseudo-Scymnus Fragment of a C1 geographical composition ( periegesis), associated with the name of the C2 Greek geographer Scymnus.
