Bibliography: Ptolemaic Dynasty & Hellenistic Chronology
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This section of the site is the formal bibliography for the material presented in the Ptolemaic section of the site, and for the charts and analyses covering Hellenistic chronology. Most, though not all, references have been personally verified. This bibliography is not meant to be comprehensive, only sufficient to cover all relevant source material and major issues of interpretation. I welcome pointers to omissions.
Online access to sources
Please notify me of any overlooked, broken or incorrect links
Classical sources are referenced in the Loeb edition where available. Partial or complete online transcriptions and/or translations exist for many of classical sources. Access to these is provided by hyperlink at the point where they are cited and in the citation. Online transcriptions of many Greek papyri may be found in the Duke Database of Documentary Papyri, and for many inscriptions at the Packard Humanities Institute Searchable Greek Inscriptions database; again, direct access to these is provided by hyperlink at the point where they are cited. Readers may also wish to consult the online edition of the Checklist of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets to locate papyrological sources.
A few journals, notably BASP, BCH, BIFAO and ZPE, are freely available online, although free coverage is only provided for older issues and may not be complete. Some individual scholars have also made reprints of their own publications available online. Hyperlinks have been established to these as I locate them. The Oriental Institute Press has recently made the courageous decision to make its book-length publications freely available, some of which are relevant here. The Oriental Institute's ETANA database also provides free online access to some older books. I very much hope that these examples will be followed by others. Many other journals only provide partial tables of contents online.
Some other journals are available through article databases only accessible through university servers or other account holders. The ones available to me are Digizeitschriften, Periodicals Archive Online, Persée and JSTOR. Links to these papers, denoted by [DZ], [PAO], [Persée] and [JSTOR] respectively, are provided next to the article entry for users who have authorisation to access these databases. Certain journals (e.g. Historia) may be available in both Digizeitschriften and JSTOR. If an article is also freely available to all Web users, preference is given to that means of access.
A useful summary of journals freely available online is maintained by Aayko Eyma of the Egyptologsts Electronic Forum. Certain older journals are now available through sites such as Gallica. Some, such as older issues of ASAE and ZAS, have now been partially digitized on a whole volume basis in the Internet Archive, with gaps on an apparently arbitrary basis. This means that individual articles cannot be accessed directly. The whole volume may be a large file, and, in some cases, multiple volumes have been digitized together. However, where I know such volumes exist the entries are denoted [IA].
Finally, the more recent issues of some journals are available online directly from the publishers, at a price. Links have been established to such entries where known, by indicating the article price at the end of the bibliographic entry, so that those who are willing and able to pay can more easily do so. Note that links to articles in journals published by Springer (here, AHES) are temporary, and that you will be diverted to their home page if the link is broken. In this case, you will need to enter the article title in their Search toolbar to locate the article.
Caveat emptor: the prices quoted here for purchased articles may be out of date and should be confirmed at the point of purchase. Also, they are, almost without exception, utterly extortionate, typically 10-100 times the cost of photocopying the same article at a university library. It defeats me why publishers of academic journals refuse to establish pricing policies that ordinary mortals and impoverished humanities departments can actually afford.
Acknowledgements
This is the appropriate place to thank a number of people who have discussed individual issues of Ptolemaic genealogy and Hellenistic chronology with me, or pointed me to new sources or ideas, including:
Sheila Ager, Farhad Assar, Joe Baker, Jean Bingen, Andreas Blasius, Tom Boiy, Richard Budelberger, Michael Burgess, Sean Byrne, Simon Cassidy, Christina di Cerbo, Michel Chauveau, Jessica Chisholm, Andrew Chugg, Willy Clarysse, David Clithero, Nina Collins, Lucia Criscuolo, Phil Davis, Mark Depauw, Didier Devauchelle, Karen Essex, Aayko Eyma, John Gee, Robert van Gent, Louis Goguillon, Erhard Grzybek, Dieter Hagedorn, Robert Hannah, Richard Hazzard, Francisca Hoogendijk, Oliver Hoover, Arthur Houghton, Richard Jasnow, Joe Kress, Brian Kritt, Elizabeth Kosmetatou, Klaus Kuhlmann, Stephen Lambert, Catharine Lorber, Edward Loring, Renzo Lucherini, Céline Marquaille, Ian Mladjov, John D. Morgan, Brian Muhs, Juarez Olivera, Branko van Oppen, Maxim Panov, Mark Passehl, Adam Philippidis, Sofie Remijsen, Robert Ritner, Troy Sagrillo, Christian Settipani, Robert Simpson, Bert van der Spek, John Steele, Jean Straus, Peter Sullivan, Paul Swarney, Heinz-Josef Thiessen, Dorothy Thompson, Glenn Trezza, Jennifer Tunny, Petr Vesely, Steve Vinson, Ron Wallenfels, Aleksandra Warda, John Whitehorne, †Frank Yurco, Karl-Theodor Zauzich.
COLLECTIONS OF INSCRIPTIONS, PAPYRI, OSTRACA ETC
Full source citations for these are given in the following links:
Inscriptions: FD III, iBucheum, iDelos, IG IX I I2, iGFayum, iGLSyr, iGPhilae, IGR IV, iLabraunda 3, ILLRP2, ISE II, LD, MAMA IX, OGIS, SIG3, Urk
Ostraca & Graffiti: gr Medinet Habu, oBodleian, odem Fs Zauzich, odem Kaplony-Heckel, odem Louvre, oMattha, odem PLBat 26, oPr. Joachim, oThebes
Demotic Papyri: pdem Ashm, pdem BM, pdem Cairo, pdem Gebel. Heid., pdem Leid., pdem Lille I, pdem Lille II, pdem Loeb, pLouvre, pdem Ox. Griffith, pdem Rylands, pdem Schreibertr, pdem Strasbourg, pdem Vaticanum, pdem Zenon, pTor. Botti, pZagreb
Greek Papyri: BGU 3, BGU 6, BGU 8, BGU 10, BGU 14, C Ord. Ptol., C. Ptol. Sklav., Chrest. Wilck., pAdler, pAmh II, pBad 2, pBon, pBouriant, pCairZen, pColl. Youtie, pColZenon 1, pColZenon 2, pDion, pEdfu 2, pEhev, pEleph, pEnt, pErasm, pFayum, pFreiburg 3, pGen 2, pGrad, pGrenf I, pGrenf II, pGurob, pHal, pHaun, pHauswaldt, pHeid 6, pHibeh 1, pHibeh 2, pJena, pKöln 2, pKöln 3, pKöln 5, pKöln 6, pKöln 8, pLille, pLondon 7, pLouvre, pOxy 1, pOxy 2, pOxy 12, pOxy 14, pOxy 17, pOxy 19, pOxy 20, pOxy 37, pOxy 55, pPetrie 3, pReceuil, pRev, pRoss.Georg., pRylands, PSI, pStrasbourg 6, pTebt 1, pTebt 3, pZenonMich, pZenPestman, SB, UPZ 1, UPZ 2
Prosopographies etc.: FGrH, PIR2, PP III, PP VI, PP VIII, PP IX, PP X, Schol. Theocritus
OTHER PTOLEMAIC RESEARCH RESOURCES
(Links open in new page. Inputs welcome)
Digital
Library of Classical Numismatic Works
The
Epigrams of Posidippus (see also AB)
The
House of Ptolemy
Prosopographia
Ptolemaica
PTOLEMAICA
LIST OF JOURNAL ABBREVIATIONS AND TITLES
A&G:
Astronomy and Geophysics
ABSA:
Annual of the British School at Athens
AC:
L'antiquité classique
AcOr:
Acta Orientalia
Aegyptus:
Aegyptus: Rivista italiana di egittologia e di papirologia
AfP:
Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete
AHB:
Ancient History Bulletin
AHES:
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
AIIN:
Annali di Istituto Italiano di Numismatica
AJA:
American Journal of Archaeology
AJAH:
American Journal of Ancient History
AJN:
American Journal of Numismatics
AJP:
American Journal of Philology
Anc.
Mac.:
Ancient Macedonia (Arkhaia Makedonia)
Anc.
Soc.: Ancient Society
Ann.
Sci.: Annals of Science
ANSMN:
American Numismatic Society Museum Notes
Antiquity:
Antiquity
ASA:
Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene
ASAE:
Annales du Service des Antiquités Égyptiennes
Arch.
Or.: Archiv Orientalní
Athenaeum:
Athenaeum: Studi periodici di letteratura e storia dell' antichita
Atti
della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino
BASP:
Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
BCH:
Bulletin de correspondance hellenique
Berytus:
Berytus: Archaeological studies
BIFAO:
Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale
BiOr:
Bibliotheca Orientalis
BJRL:
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
BMA:
Brooklyn Museum Annual
BPhW:
Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift
BSAA:
Bulletin de la Societé Archéologique d' Alexandrie
CA:
Classical Antiquity
CdE:
Chronique d'Égypte
Celator:
The Celator: Numismatic art of antiquity
Centaurus:
Centaurus
- International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science and Technology
Chiron:
Chiron: Mitteilungen der Kommission für Alte Geschichte und
Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Clara
Rhodos: Clara Rhodos : studi e materiali pubblicati a cura
dell'Istituto storico-archeologico di Rodi
Class.
et Med.: Classica et Mediaevalia
CP:
Classical Philology
CQ:
Classical Quarterly
CR:
Classical Review
CRAIBL:
Comptes rendus des séances - Academie des inscriptions & belles-lettres
EA:
Epigraphica Anatolica
Enchoria:
Enchoria: Zeitschrift für Demotistik und Koptologie
EP:
Études de papyrologie
EVO:
Egitto e Vicino Oriente
GA:
Gerión Anejos
GGA:
Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen
GM:
Göttinger Miszellen
GRBS:
Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies
HSCPh:
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
HThR:
Harvard Theological Review
Hellenica:
Hellenica; recueil d'épigraphie de numismatique et
d'antiquités grecques
Hermathena:
Hermathena: a series of papers on literature, science and philosophy
Hermes:
Hermes: Zeitschrift für classische Philologie
Historia:
Historia: Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte
INJ:
Israel Numismatic Journal
Iraq
JAMS:
Journal of Ancient and Medieval Studies
JAOS:
Journal of the American Oriental Society
JARCE:
Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt
JCP:
Jahrbücher für classische Philologie
JCS:
Journal of Cuneiform Studies
JEA:
Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
JHA:
Journal for the History of Astronomy
JHS:
Journal of Hellenic Studies
JJP:
Journal of Juristic Papyri
JNES:
Journal of Near Eastern Studies
JOAI:
Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts
JRASC:
Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
JRS:
Journal of Roman Studies
JWCI:
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
Latomus:
Latomus: revue d'études latines
LS:
Libyan Studies
MDAIA:
Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts,
Athenische Abteilung
MDAIK:
Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo
MeditArch:
Mediterranean Archaeology
MEFRA:
Mélanges de l'École Française de Rome: Antiquité
MH:
Museum Helveticum
MIO:
Mitteilungen des Instituts für Orientforschung der Deuschen
Akademie der Wissenschaft in Berlin
Mnemosyne:
Mnemosyne: a journal of classical studies
NABU:
Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires
NC:
Numismatic Chronicle
NdS:
Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità
NNA:
Nordisk Numismatisk Årsskrift
NYRB:
New York Review of Books
Op.
Ath.: Opuscula Atheniensia
Or:
Orientalia
OrSuec:
Orientalia Suecana
PBSR:
Papers of the British School at Rome
PCPS:
Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society
PdP:
La Parola del Passato
Philologus:
Philologus: Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie
Phoenix:
Phoenix: Journal of the Ontario Classical Association
Polemwn:
Polemwn:
revue scientifique d'archéologie
Pomoerium:
Pomoerium. Studia et commentarii ad orbem classicum spectantia
QNAC:
Quaderni ticinesi di numismatica e antichità classiche
QJRAS:
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society
RdA:
Revue d'Assyriologie
RdE:
Revue d'Égyptologie
RE:
Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
REA:
Revue des Études Anciennes
REAC:
Ricerche di egiittologia e di antichita
REG:
Revue des Études Grecques
Rev.
Eg.: Revue Égyptologique
RFIC:
Rivista di Filologia e di Instruzione Classica
RH:
Revue Historique
RhMP:
Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, Geschichte und griechische Philosophie
RPAA:
Rendiconti della pontificia accademia romana di archaeologia
RPh:
Revue de Philologie (NB: NOT Revue Philologique)
RSA:
Rivista Storica dell'Antichita
RSO:
Rivista degli Studi Orientali
RT:
Recueil des travaux relatifs à la philologie et à
l'archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes
SEG:
Supplementum
Epigraphicum Graecum
SNR:
Schweizerische Numismatische Rundschau
SCI:
Scripta Classica Israelica
SCO:
Studi Classici e Orientali
Simblos:
Simblos: scritti di storia antica
Studi
ellenistici
Studies
in the History of Art
TAPS:
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Tyche:
Tyche: Beitrage zur alten Geschichte
Vistas
in Astronomy
WO:
Die Welt des Orients
YCS:
Yale Classical Studies
ZÄS:
Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde
ZfN:
Zeitschrift für Numismatik
ZPalV:
Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins
ZPE:
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
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