The spelling and presentation of Greek names and technical terms is a thorny issue over which scholars continue to wrangle, much to the confusion of nonspecialists. James Whitley’s advice (The archaeology of ancient Greece, Cambridge, 2001: xxv) seems eminently sensible, and we too have tried to be consistent in our inconsistency, preferring the familiar anglicized forms for well-known personal names (so Thucydides and not Thoukydides) and places (so Syracuse and not Syrakousai) so that those readers unfamiliar with things Greek might investigate more easily on their own. On the other hand, we have transliterated technical terms (e.g., strategos, general) and some place names (e.g., Kerameikos, the “national” cemetery in Athens) not so much for effect as for some sort of authenticity.
Names of ancient authors and titles, and other standard reference works, are for the most part abbreviated as listed in the Oxford Classical Dictionary (see below) or LSJ = H. G. Liddell and R. Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, 9th ed., rev. by H. S. Jones and R. McKenzie (Oxford, 1940). Titles of periodical literature are generally abbreviated as found in the annual index to classical studies, L’Ann é e philologique; titles of nonclassical journals are spelled out.
The following should also be noted:
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