An abbreviated format is used to cite the following standard reference works. These titles should not be included in the list of works cited but should be referenced in the notes following the formatting examples in the AJA Abbreviations section in Bibliographic References and Notes.
| ABL | C.H.E. Haspels, Attic Black-Figured Lekythoi (Paris 1936) |
| ABV | J.D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford 1956) |
| AÉpigr | L’Année épigraphique: Revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine (Paris 1888– ) |
| AHw | W. von Soden, Akkadisches Handwörterbuch (Weisbaden 1965–1981) |
| AntCr | D. Levi and G. Rizza, Antichità cretesi: Studi in onore di Doro Levi. 2 vols. (Catania 1973–1974) |
| ANRW | H. Temporini, ed., Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt (Berlin 1972– ) |
| ArchHom | F. Matz and H.G. Buchholz, eds., Archaeologia Homerica (Göttingen 1967– ) |
| ARV² | J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. (Oxford 1963) |
| ASR | C. Robert et al., Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs (Berlin 1890– ) |
| BAPD | Beazley Archive Pottery Database (www.beazley.ox.ac.uk) |
| Beazley Addenda² | T.H. Carpenter et al., Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² and Paralipomena. 2nd ed. (Oxford 1989) |
| Benndorf-Schöne | O. Benndorf and O. Schöne, Die antiken Bildwerke des Lateranensischen Museums (Leipzig 1867) |
| BMC | R.S. Poole, Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum (London 1873– ) |
| BMCRE | H. Mattingly, Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum (London 1923– ) |
| BMCRR | H.A. Grueber, Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum (London 1910) |
| BrBr | H. Brunn, Denkmäler griechischer und römischer Sculptur in historischer Anordnung (Munich 1888–1911) |
| CAD | The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (Chicago 1956–2010) |
| CAT | C.W. Clairmont, Classical Attic Tombstones (Kilchberg 1993) |
| CB | L.D. Caskey and J.D. Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Oxford 1931–1963) |
| CoMIK | J. Chadwick et al., Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos (Cambridge 1986–1998) |
| CIA | Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Corpus inscriptionum atticarum (Berlin 1873–1897) |
| CIE | C. Pauli et al., Corpus inscriptionum etruscarum (Rome 1964– [repr. of Leipzig 1893–1936]) |
| CIG | A. Boeckh et al., Corpus inscriptionum graecarum (Berlin 1828–1877) |
| CII | J.B. Frey, Corpus inscriptionum iudicarum (New York 1975) |
| CIL | Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Corpus inscriptionum latinarum (Berlin 1893–) |
| CIS | Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum (Paris 181–1962) |
| CMS | F. Matz, Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel (Berlin 1964– ) |
| CRRO | Coinage of the Roman Republic Online (http://numismatics.org/crro) |
| CVA | Corpus vasorum antiquorum (Paris 1923– ) |
| DACL | F. Cabrol and E. Leclercq, Dictionnaire d’archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie (Paris 1907–1953) |
| DarSag | C. Daremberg and E. Saglio, Dictionnaire des antiquités grecques et romaines (Paris 1875) |
| Docs¹ | M. Ventris and J. Chadwick, Documents in Mycenaean Greek (Cambridge 1956) |
| Docs² | M. Ventris and J. Chadwick, Documents in Mycenaean Greek. 2nd ed. (Cambridge 1973) |
| EA | P. Arndt and W. Amelung, Photographische Einzelaufnahmen antiker Skulpturen (Munich 1893–1940) |
| EAA | Enciclopedia dell’arte antica, classica e orientale (Rome 1958–1984) |
| ES | E. Gerhard et al., Etruskische Spiegel (Berlin 1843–1897) |
| Espérandieu | E. Espérandieu, Recueil général des bas-reliefs, statues, et bustes de la Gaule romaine (Paris 1907– ) |
| ET | H. Rix, Etruskische Texte: Editio minor (Tübingen 1991) |
| EVP | J.D. Beazley, Etruscan Vase Painting (Oxford 1947) |
| FGrHist | F. Jacoby, Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (Berlin 1923– ) |
| FHG | K. Müller, Fragmenta historicorum graecorum (Frankfurt 1975 [repr. of 1841–1938 ed.]) |
| FR | A. Furtwängler and K. Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei (Munich 1900–1925) |
| FRHist | T.J. Cornell, ed., The Fragments of the Roman Historians. 3 vols. (Oxford 2013) |
| GCH | C. Kraay et al., An Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards (New York 1973) |
| Gercke-Norden | A. Gercke and E. Norden, Einleitung in die Altertumswissenschaft (Leipzig 1910–1912) |
| GGR³ | M.P. Nilsson, Geschichte der griechischen Religion. 3rd ed. (Munich 1967) |
| GORILA | L. Godart and J.-P. Olivier, Recueil des inscriptions en Linéaire A (Paris 1976– ) |
| GrCirclB | G.E. Mylonas, Grave Circle B of Mycenae (Lund 1964) |
| HdA | Handbuch der Archäologie (Berlin 1931– ) |
| Helbig⁴ | W. Helbig, Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümer in Rom. 4th ed. (Tübingen 1963–1972) |
| Heldensage³ | F. Brommer, Vasenlisten zur griechischen Heldensage. 3rd ed. (Marburg 1973) |
| ICr | M. Guarducci and F. Halbherr, Inscriptiones creticae (Rome 1935–1950) |
| ID | F. Dürrbach et al., Inscriptions de Délos (Paris 1926– ) |
| IG | M. Fraenkel, Inscriptiones graecae (Berlin 1895– ) |
| IGLSyr | L. Jalabert and R. Mouterde, Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie (Paris 1929–[1986]) |
| IGRR | R. Cagnat, Inscriptiones graecae ad res romanas pertinentes (Chicago 1975) |
| II | A. Ferrua and A. Garzetti, Inscriptiones Italiae (Rome 1948–1986) |
| ILLRP | H. Degrassi, Inscriptiones latinae liberae rei publicae (Rome 1957– ) |
| ILS | H. Dessau, ed., Inscriptiones latinae selectae (Berlin 1892–1916) |
| InsAph | Inscriptions of Aphrodisias Project (http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/) |
| I.Olympia | Dittenberger, W., and K. Purgold. Die Inschriften von Olympia (Berlin, 1896) |
| I.Pergamon | Fränkel, M. 1890. Die Inschriften von Pergamon (Berlin 1890) |
| IsMEO | Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente |
| IvE | H. Wankel et al., Die Inschriften von Ephesos (Bonn 1979–1984) |
| Karo | G. Karo, Die Schachtgräber von Mykenai (Munich 1930–1933) |
| KBo | Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazköi (Leipzig and Berlin 1916– ) |
| KUB | Keilschrifturkunden aus Boghazköi (Berlin 1922– ) |
| KirchPA | J.E. Kirchner, Prosopographia attica (Chicago 1981 [repr. of 1901–1903 ed.]) |
| KlPauly | K. Ziegler et al., eds., Der kleine Pauly: Lexicon der Antike (Munich 1964–1975) |
| LGPN | Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (Oxford 1987– ) |
| LIMC | J. Boardman, Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (Zurich 1981–2009) |
| LIMC Online | LIMCicon Database (www.limc-france.fr) |
| LSJ⁹ | H.G. Liddell et al., Greek-English Lexicon. 9th ed. (Oxford 1940) |
| LSJ Online | The Online Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek-English Lexicon (www.tlg.uci.edu/lsj) |
| LTUR | E.M. Steinby, ed., Lexicon topographicum urbis romae (Rome 1993) |
| LTURS | A. La Regina, ed., Lexicon topographicum urbis Romae: Suburbium (Rome 2001–2008) |
| Matz-Duhn | F. Matz and F. von Duhn, Antike Bildwerke in Rom (Leipzig 1881–1882) |
| Migne, PG | J.P. Migne, Patrologia graeca (Paris 1928–1936) |
| Migne, PL | J.P. Migne, Patrologia latina (Paris 1879) |
| MMR² | M.P. Nilsson, The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion. 2nd ed. (Lund 1950) |
| Nash² | E. Nash, Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome. 2nd ed. (New York 1968) |
| NTDAR | L. Richardson, A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (Baltimore 1992) |
| Neue Pauly | H. Cancik and H. Schneider, eds., Der neue Pauly: Enzyklopädie der Antike (Stuttgart 1996–2003) |
| New Pauly, Antiquity | H. Cancik and H. Schneider, eds., Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Antiquity (Boston 2002–2010) |
| New Pauly, Classical | M. Landfester et al., eds., Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Classical Tradition (Boston 2006–2011) |
| New Pauly Online | Brill Online Reference Works (http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/brill-s-new-pauly) |
| OCD | The Oxford Classical Dictionary |
| OCRE | Online Coins of the Roman Empire (http://numismatics.org/ocre/) |
| OLD | Oxford Latin Dictionary |
| Paralipomena | J.D. Beazley, Paralipomena (Oxford 1971) |
| PECS | R. Stillwell et al., eds., Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (Princeton 1976) |
| PGC | H.G. Buchholz and V. Karageorghis, Prehistoric Greece and Cyprus (London 1973) |
| PGM | K. Preisendanz and A. Heinrichs, Papyri Graecae Magicae (1928–1974) |
| PIR² | Prosopographia Imperii Romani. 2nd ed. (Berlin and Leipzig 1933–2015) |
| Platner-Ashby | S.B. Platner and T. Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (London 1929) |
| RE | A. Pauly and G. Wissowa, Real-Encyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft (1893–1978) |
| RIC | H. Mattingly et al., The Roman Imperial Coinage (London 1923– ) |
| RIC² | H. Mattingly et al., The Roman Imperial Coinage. 2nd rev. ed. (London 2007– ) |
| Roscher | W.H. Roscher, Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie (Leipzig 1884–1937) |
| RPC | Roman Provincial Coinage (London and Paris 1992– ) and https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/ |
| RRC | M.H. Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage (New York 1974) |
| RSGR | S. Reinach, Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine (Paris 1897–1924) |
| RVAp | A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia (Oxford 1978– ) |
| SEG | Supplementum epigraphicum graecum (Leiden 1923–) |
| SGI | Searchable Greek Inscriptions: A Scholarly Tool in Progress. The Packard Humanities Institute (https://inscriptions.packhum.org/) |
| SIG | W. Dittenberger, Sylloge inscriptionum graecarum (Leipzig 1883– ) |
| SNG | British Academy, Sylloge nummorum graecorum (London 1931– ) |
| Stuart Jones, Cap. | H. Stuart Jones, A Catalogue of the Ancient Sculptures Preserved in the Municipal Collections of Rome: The Sculptures of the Museo Capitolino (Oxford 1926) |
| Stuart Jones, Cons. | H. Stuart Jones, A Catalogue of the Ancient Sculptures Preserved in the Municipal Collections of Rome: The Sculptures of the Palazzo dei Conservatori (Oxford 1912) |
| ThLE | M. Pallottino and M.P. Angeletti, Thesaurus linguae etruscae (Rome 1978– ) |
| TKB | G. Mylonas, O taphikos kyklos B ton Mykenon (Athens 1972–1973) |
| TLE² | M. Pallottino, Testimonia linguae etruscae. 2nd ed. (Florence 1968) |
| TLG³ | L. Berkowitz et al., Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Canon of Greek Authors and Works. 3rd ed. (Oxford 1990) |
| TLG | Online Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: A Digital Library of Greek Literature (www.tlg.uci.edu) |
| TLL | R. Estienne and J. Hollins, Thesaurus linguae latinae (1900– ) |
| Travlos, Athens | I. Travlos, Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Athens (London 1971) |
| Travlos, Attika | I. Travlos, Bildlexikon zur Topographie des antiken Attika (Tübingen 1988) |
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