Primary texts – related to paradoxography

Aelian (1665) Claudius Aelianus, His Various History. Translated by Thomas Stanley. London: Thomas Dring. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/aelian/

——— (1832) Aeliani de natura animalium libri xvii. Edited by Friedrich Jacobs. 2 vols. Jena: F. Frommann. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Aelian/home.html

——— (1858) ‘Varia Historia’. In Aeliani De natura animalium, varia historia, epistolae et fragmenta. Porphyrii philosophi de abstinenta et de antro nympharum. Philonis Byzantii de septem orbis spectaculis, edited by Rudolph Hercher, 298–425. Paris: A.F. Didot. https://archive.org/details/aelianidenatura02aeligoog/page/n385/mode/2up

——— (1958) On Animals (3 vols). Translated by Schofield. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press; Heinemann. http://www.attalus.org/info/aelian.html

Agatharchides of Cnidus (1980) The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, by an Unknown Author. Translated by G.W.B. Huntingford. London: Hakluyt Society.

Anon. (1805) ΓΕΩΠΟΝΙΚΑ [Geoponica]. Agricultural pursuits (2 vols). Translated by Owen. London: Printed for the author. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=olbp25672

——— (1936) Physiologus. Edited by F. Sbordone. Milano: Soc. ed. Dante Alighieri.

——— (2011) Physiologus: The Slavic Physiologus of the Byzantine Recension: Electronic Text Edition and Comparative Study. Edited by Ana Stoykova. http://physiologus.proab.info/?re=10

Aristotle (1910) Historia animalium. Translated by D’Arcy W. Thompson. Oxford: Clarendon Press. https://topostext.org/work/101

——— (1911) Aristotle On the parts of animals [De partibus animalium]. Translated by William Ogle. Oxford: Clarendon Press. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/73935#page/7/mode/1up

——— (1923) Meteorologica. Translated by E.W. Webster. Oxford: Clarendon Press. http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/meteorology.html

[Aristotle] (1936) Problems 1–21. Translated by W.S. Hett. London: Heinemann.

——— (1937) Problems 22–38, Rhetorica ad Alexandrum. Translated by W.S. Hett and H. Rackham. London: Heinemann. http://www.archive.org/details/problems02arisuoft

Aristotle (1937) The Parts of Animals, The Movement of Animals, and The Progression of Animals. Translated by A.L. Peck and E.S. Forster. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. https://archive.org/details/partsofanimals00arisuoft/page/n9/mode/2up

——— (1943) Generation of Animals. Translated by A.L. Peck. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press; Heinemann. http://www.archive.org/details/generationofanim00arisuoft

——— (1952a) Meteorologica. Translated by H.D.P. Lee. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

——— (1952b) Select Fragments. Translated by David Ross. Vol. 12. The Works of Aristotle. Oxford: Clarendon Press. https://archive.org/details/worksofaristotle12arisuoft/page/n3/mode/2up

——— (1965) History of Animals (3 vols). Translated by A.L. Peck and D. M. Balme. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press; Heinemann.

——— (2001) On the parts of animals. Translated by James G. Lennox. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.

Arrian (1976) History of Alexander; Indica (2 vols). Translated by P.A. Brunt. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press; Heinemann.

——— (1995) Périple du Pont-Euxin. Translated by Alain Silberman. Paris: Les Belles Lettres.

Athenaeus (1853) The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned, of Athenaeus. Translated by C.D. Yonge. London: Henry G. Bohn. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a2013.01.0003

——— (1927) The Deipnosophists (7 vols). Translated by C.B. Gulick. London; Cambridge, Mass: Heinemann; Harvard University Press. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a2008.01.0405 [Perseus] http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Athenaeus/home.html [Lacus Curtius].

Aulus Gellius (1927) The Attic Nights (3 vols). Translated by John C. Rolfe. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press; Heinemann. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a2007.01.0072

Cato (1934) Cato and Varro on Agriculture. Translated by W.D. Hooper and H. B. Ash. London: Heinemann. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cato/De_Agricultura/home.html

Celsus (1935) De medicina (3 vols). Translated by W.G. Spencer. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press; Heinemann. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.02.0142

Cicero (1933) De natura deorum. Academica. Translated by H. Rackham. London: Heinemann. http://www.archive.org/details/denaturadeorumac00ciceuoft

Columella (1941) De re rustica (3 vols). Edited by H. B. Ash, E. Forster, and E. Heffner. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Ctesias, and Andrew Nichols (2008) ‘The Complete Fragments of Ctesias of Cnidus: Translation and Commentary with an Introduction’. PhD, University of Florida. https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0022521/00001

——— (2011) Ctesias. On India, and Fragments of His Minor Work. London: Bristol Classical Press.

Diodorus Siculus (1933) Library of History (12 vols). Translated by Sherman et al. London; Cambridge, Mass: Heinemann; Harvard University Press. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html

Dioscorides (2000) De materia medica. Translated by John Goodyer and Tessa A. Osbaldeston. Johannesburg: IBIDIS Press. http://www.cancerlynx.com/dioscorides.html

——— (2005) Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus: De materia medica. Translated by Lily Y. Beck. Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien 38. Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann.

Feldbusch, M., ed. (1976) Der Brief Alexanders an Aristoteles über die Wunder Indiens. Meisenheim: Hain.

Hanno (1995) Periplus, or, Circumnavigation of Africa. Edited by A. N. Oikonomidēs and M. C. J. Miller. 3rd ed. Chicago, Ill: Ares Publishers.

Heraclitus Paradoxographus, and Jacob Stern (2003) ‘Heraclitus the Paradoxographer, Περι ἀπίστων, “On Unbelievable Tales”’. Transactions of the American Philological Association 133 (1): 51–97.

Herodotus (1920) The Persian Wars [The Histories] (4 vols). Translated by Godley. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press; Heinemann. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.01.0126

——— (2008) The Landmark Herodotus. Translated by Purvis. New York / London: Pantheon Books / Quercus.

Lucretius (1992) De natura rerum. Translated by Rouse and Smith. Vol. 2. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press; Heinemann.

Mair, A. W., ed. (1928) Oppian, Colluthus, Tryphiodorus. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press; Heinemann. http://www.archive.org/details/oppiancolluthust00oppiuoft

McCrindle, J. W., ed. (1901) Ancient India as Described in Classical Literature. Westminster: A. Constable and Co., Ltd. https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.34853

Megasthenes, and Richard Stoneman (2021) Megasthenes’ Indica: A New Translation of the Fragments with Commentary. Oxford: Routledge.

Nicander (1953) The poems and poetical fragments. Translated by Gow and Scholfield. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Palaephatus (2008) ‘Palaiphatos: Hihetetlen történetek’. Translated by Dóra Pataricza, Dániel Bajnok, György Németh, and Kata Ruzsa. Vallástudományi Szemle 4 (1): 123–55.

Palaephatus, and Jacob Stern (1996) Palaephatus: On Unbelievable Tales. Wauconda: Bolchazy-Carducci.

Pausanias (1918) Description of Greece (5 vols). Translated by Jones and Ormerod. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press; Heinemann. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.01.0160

[Pharasmanes] (1979) De rebus in Oriente mirabilibus (Lettre de Farasmanes). Edited by C. Lecouteux. Meisenheim: Hain.

——— (1994) Le meraviglie dell’Oriente = De rebus in Oriente mirabilibus. Translated by Cicutto. Pisa: ETS.

Pliny (1855) The Natural History (6 vols). Translated by J. Bostock and H. T. Riley. London: Henry G. Bohn. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137

——— (1929) The Elder Pliny’s Chapters on chemical subjects (2 vols). Translated by Bailey. London: Arnold.

——— (1938) Natural History (10 Vols). Translated by Rackham et al. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press; Heinemann. https://web.archive.org/web/20161229101439/http://www.masseiana.org/pliny.htm#BOOK%20I

Ramelli, I. L. E., ed. (2007) Opere e frammenti / Allegoristi dell’età classica. Milano: Bompiani.

Seneca (1910) Physical science in the time of Nero: being a translation of the Quaestiones naturales of Seneca. Translated by John Clarke and Archibald Geikie. London: Macmillan and Co. http://www.archive.org/details/physicalsciencei00seneiala

——— (1981) Natural questions (Book II). Edited by H. M. Hine. New York: Arno Press.

Strabo (1854) Geography (3 vols). Translated by H. C. Hamilton and W. Falconer. London: Henry G. Bohn. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.01.0239

——— (1917) The Geography (8 vols). Translated by H. L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press; Heinemann. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=strabo%20jones

——— (1969) Géographie, I: Livres I et II. Translated by Aujac. Paris: Les Belles Lettres.

Tardiola, Giuseppe, ed. (1991) Le meraviglie dell’India. Roma: Archivio Guido Izzi.

Temple, R. K. G. (1983) Strange things: a collection of modern scientific curiosities. London: Sphere.

Theophrastus (1916) Enquiry into plants (2 vols). Translated by Hort. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press; Heinemann. http://archive.org/details/enquiryintoplan01theo [Vol I] http://www.archive.org/details/enquiryintoplant02theouoft [Vol II].

——— (1956) Theophrastus on stones. Translated by Caley and Richards. Columbus: Ohio State University. http://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/32541

——— (1965) De lapidibus. Translated by Eichholz. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

——— (1971) De igne. Translated by Coutant. Assen: Van Gorcum.

——— (1976) De causis plantarum (3 vols). Translated by Einarson and Link. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Varro (1934) Cato and Varro on Agriculture. Translated by W.D. Hooper and H. B. Ash. London: Heinemann. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Varro/de_Re_Rustica/home.html

Vitruvius (1914) The Ten Books on Architecture. Translated by Morgan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.02.0073 [Perseus] http://archive.org/details/cu31924005226513 [Internet Archive].