06-29-2010, 10:39 AM
Quote:I am finishing my assignment and need to know how to cite ancient sources in the Oxford referencing styleI think it is not very important to follow a particular system; what matters is that things are referenced and that the system is consistent. I get the impression that most writers refer to ancient sources in the text itself, e.g. "(Hdt. Hist. 7.112)" or "(Ulp. D. 15.3.8.pr)". The trick is to know the abbreviations, which are often based on the Latin titles of the works. There's a list in the Oxford Classical Dictionary, which is almost identical to the list of abbreviations in the Neue Pauly; an overview can be found here.
Quote:How about Gibbons the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?Ignore it. It's a splendid book, but it predates the invention of critical scholarship, which is a nineteenth-century development in Germany. His notes are, usually, to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French editions of classical texts, which have a different counting.
