'Paradoxography' is the name now given to a genre of ancient – mostly Greek – literature describing various marvels of the natural and human worlds, which had its origins in the Hellenistic era. The earliest writings date to the third century BCE, with a work of Callimachus that survives only in quotations by the slightly later Antigonus.

This Zotero bibliography is being compiled to support a slow but ongoing private project to make available basic open-access English translations of these texts. Until recently, these were unavailable in translation apart from the pseudo-Aristotelian On Marvellous Things Heard, benefiting from its misattribution. Now, we also have Phlegon of Tralles' On Marvels and On Long-lived Persons, made accessible through a translation with commentary by William Hansen; the compilation of the anonymous Paradoxographus Vaticanus, with translation and commentary by Jacob Stern; and a translation and commentary on Antigonus' Compilation of Marvellous Accounts by I.R. Ciuca. Of these, however, only Hansen's affordable paperback can really be said to be readily available. Stern is in the form of a single chapter in an expensive edited book, and Ciuca is an unpublished PhD dissertation.

The bibiography is intended to be reasonably comprehensive and up-to-date, but since the focus of the project is to provide open-access material, older material which is in the public domain (e.g. on the Internet Archive) is included even if it has since been superseded by more recent scholarship. Apart from that, of course, there are a number of open-access publications, and the praiseworthy activities of institutional repositories or of individuals who have made their work freely available.

Disciplines

• Classics and Classical Studies

Website

http://paradoxography.org