Bibliography

The mathematical data used in Diophant Ancient Measures Converter have been derived from some of the sources below. This list can be used as a basic bibliography on ancient metrology.

A. Sources & Studies

Dekoulakou-Sideris Ifigenia. "A Metrological Relief from Salamis." American Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 94 no 3 (July 1990): 445-451. JSTOR

Diller, Aubrey. "The Ancient Measurements of the Earth." Isis. Vol. 40, no 1 (February 1949): 6-9. JSTOR

Dureau de la Malle, Adolphe. Economie Politique des Romains. 2 vols. 1840 Vol.1 and Vol.2

Entwistle, Christopher. "Byzantine Weights" in Angeliki E. Laiou. Ed. The Economic History of Byzantium. Harvard Univ. Press, 2008.

Grierson, Philip. Byzantine Coinage. 1999.

Hultsch, Fr. Griechische und Romische Metrologie. 1862.

__________. Metrologicorum Scriptorum Reliquiae. 2 vols. 1866.

Kountouras, Argyrios Men. Ta Arxaia Metra. 1996.

Michaelis, Ad. "The Metrological Relief at Oxford" The Journal of Hellenic Studies. Vol. 4 (1883): 335-350. JSTOR

Pritchett, W. Kendrick and Anne Pippin. "The Attic Stelai: Part II." Hesperia. Vol. 25, no 3. (July - September 1956): 178-328. JSTOR

Richardson, W. F. Numbering and Measuring in the Classical World. 1985.

Schilbach, E. Byzantinische Metrologie. 1970.

Wilson Jones, Mark. "Doric measures and Architectural Design 1: The Evidence of the Relief from Salamis."
                  American Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 104, no 1 (January 2000): 73-93.  JSTOR


B. Dictionaries & Encyclopedic Works

Dimitrakos, Dimitrios B. Ed. Mega Lexikon oles tes Ellenikes Glosses. 9 vols. 1953/1964/2004.

Liddell, George Henry and Scott Robert. A Greek-English Lexicon. Revised and with Supplement. 1996. Older editions without latest supplement.

Leopold, E. F. Lexicon Graeco-Latinum Manuale. 1852.

Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. 1870 and elsewhere.

Sophokles, E. Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (146 B.C-AD 1100). 1914.

Tsakalotos, Eustratios D. A Latin-Greek Lexicon. 1921.


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