• Aischylos, Eumeniden

• Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphosen
• Apollodor, Bibliotheke
• Apollonios Rhodios, Argonautika
• Diodor, Bibliotheke
• Dionysios von Halikarnassos, Antike römische Geschichte
• Ephoros
• Herodot, Historien
• Homer, Ilias

• Homer, Odyssee
• Thukydides, Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Krieges
• Platon, Nomoi , Politeia
• Pausanias, Beschreibung Griechenlands
• Ovid, Metamorphosen
• Tyrtaios, Fragmente zur dorischen Herkunft Spartas und zur Dreiteilung der Dorer (Pamphyloi, Dymanes, Hylleis)
• Stephanus von Byzanz
• Strabon, Geographika

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