Note on Texts and Abbreviations
The edition of reference for the seven fully preserved plays of (Ps.-)Aeschylus is Alan H. Sommerstein, 2008. Aeschylus, Volumes 1 and 2. Cambridge, MA / London: Harvard University Press. Tragic fragments are referred to according to the standard edition of TrGF. Translations from ancient and modern languages are by the author except where otherwise specified.
The most frequently used abbreviations are the following:
| KA |
Kassel, R., Austin, C. (eds.), 1983–. Poetae Comici Graeci, 8 vols. Berlin / New York: De Gruyter. |
| LSJ |
Liddell, H.G., Scott, R., 91996 [1843]. A Greek–English Lexicon. Revised and Argumented Throughout by Sir H.S. Jones, with the Assistance of R. McKenzie and with the Cooperation of Many Scholars, Oxford: Clarendon Press. |
| TrGF |
Snell, B., Radt, S., Kannicht, R. (eds.), 1971–2004. Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, 5 vols. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. |