Abbreviations
| AA | Archäologischer Anzeiger |
| ABV | J. B. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956 |
| Add.2 | T. H. Carpenter, with T. Mannack and M. Mendonça, Beazley Addenda, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989 |
| ArchHom | Archaeologia Homerica |
| ARV | J. B. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 3 vols., second edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963 |
| AW | Antike Welt |
| BAPD | Beazley Archive Pottery Database |
| CEG | P. A. Hansen, Carmina Epigraphica Graeca saeculorum VIII–V a.Chr.n., Berlin: de Gruyter, 1983 and Carmina Epigraphica Graeca saeculi IV a.Chr.n., Berlin: de Gruyter, 1989 |
| Consbruch | M. Consbruch, Hephaestionis Enchiridion, Leipzig: Teubner, 1906 |
| CQ | Classical Quarterly |
| CVA | Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum |
| Davies | M. Davies, Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1988 |
| Davies and Finglass | M. Davies and P. J. Finglass, Stesichorus: The Poems, edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014 |
| D-K | H. Diels and W. Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, sixth edition, Berlin: Weidmann, 1951–1952 |
| FGrH | F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1923– (Leiden: Brill, 1954–) |
| GFA | Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft |
| Gow-Page | A. S. F. Gow and D. L. Page, The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, 2 vols., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965 |
| Hollis | A. S. Hollis, Fragments of Roman Poetry, c. 60 BC–AD 20, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007 |
| IG | Inscriptiones Graecae, Berlin 1873– |
| JdI | Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts |
| K-A | R. Kassel and C. Austin, Poetae Comici Graeci, 8 vols., Berlin: de Gruyter, 1983– |
| LGPN | P. M. Frazer, E. Matthews et al. (eds.), A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, vols. I, II, IIIA, IIIB, IV, VA, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987–2010 |
| LIMC | J. Boardman et al. (eds.), Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, vols. 1–8, Zurich: Artemis, 1981–1997; Supplementum 1, Düsseldorf 2009 |
| Lloyd-Jones-Parsons | H. Lloyd-Jones and P. J. Parsons, Supplementum Hellenisticum, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1983 |
| LSJ | H. G. Liddell, R. Scott and H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon, ninth edition with a revised supplement, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996 |
| LTUR | Steinby, E. M. (ed.), Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae, 6 vols., Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2001–2008 |
| MDAI-A | Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung |
| MDAI-R | Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung |
| M-W | R. Merkelbach and M. L. West, Fragmenta Hesiodea, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967 |
| NP | Der Neue Pauly: Enzyklopädie der Antike, Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 1996–2003 |
| OCD | Oxford Classical Dictionary, third revised edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003; fourth edition, 2012; digital fifth edition, 2016– |
| OBO | Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics |
| Para. | J. D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971 |
| Pfeiffer | R. Pfeiffer, Callimachus, 2 vols., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1949–1953 |
| PMG | D. L. Page, Poetae Melici Graeci, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962 |
| PMGF | M. Davies, Poetarum Melicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, vol. 1: Alcman, Stesichorus, Ibycus, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991 |
| Powell | J. U. Powell, Collectanea Alexandrina: Reliquiae Minores Poetarum Graecorum Aetatis Ptolemaicae, 323–146 A.C., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925 |
| P.Oxy. | The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1898– |
| RE | Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft Altertumswissenschaft, Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 1894–1980 |
| RevArch | Revue Archéologique |
| SEG | Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden 1923– |
| Slater | W. Slater, Aristophanis Byzantii Fragmenta, Berlin York: de Gruyter, 1986 |
| SLG | D. L. Page, Supplementum Lyricis Graecis: Poetarum lyricorum Graecorum fragmenta quae recens innotuerunt, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974 |
| Snell-Maehler | B. Snell and H. Maehler, Pindari Carmina. Pars I: Epinicia, eighth edition, Leipzig: Teubner 1987; H. Maehler, Pindari Carmina. Pars II: Fragmenta, Leipzig: Teubner, 1989 |
| TrGF | B. Snell, R. Kannicht and S. Radt, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, 5 vols. (Vol. 1: Didascaliae Tragicae, Catalogi Tragicorum et Tragoediarum, Testimonia et Fragmenta Tragicorum Minorum, second edition 1986 [B. Snell]. Vol. 2: Fragmenta Adespota, 1981 [R. Kannicht and B. Snell]. Vol. 3: Aeschylus, 1985 [S. Radt]. Vol. 4: Sophocles, second edition 1999 [S. Radt]. Vol. 5: Euripides, 2 parts, 2004 [R. Kannicht]), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1971–2004 |
| ThesCRA | Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum, 8 vols., Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004–2012 |
| W | M. L. West, Iambi et Elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati, 2 vols., second revised edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989–1992 |
| V | E.-M. Voigt, Sappho et Alcaeus: Fragmenta, Amsterdam: Polak and van Gennep, 1971 |
| ZPE | Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik |