Aetna and the Moon: Explaining Nature in Ancient Greece and Rome

A Note on References to Ancient Works

| ix ix a note on referenc es to a nc ient work s References here to Plato’s Timaeus and Plutarch’s dialogue On the Face on the Moon cite “Stephanus pages.” This convention offers readers a uniform system of reference, regardless of which edition or translation they use, by providing in the margins of modern editions the page references to the edition of Plutarch’s Moralia published in 1572 and of Plato’s writings in 1578 by Henri Estienne (c. 1528/31-1598). These editions were, for more than two centuries, the standard. The name “Stephanus” comes from the latinized form of “Estienne.” References to Strabo’s Geography indicate their place in the 1620 edition of Isaac Casaubon. ...