- ^ a b Herodotus, Histories,4.138
- ^ Aeneas Tacticus, 28.6–7,"Ἰφιάδης εἶναι Ἀβυδηνὸς κατὰ Ἑλλήσποντον καταλαμβάνων Πάριον ἄλλα τε περὶ τὴν ἀνάβασιν νυκτὸς ἐπὶ τοῦ τείχους λάθρᾳ παρεσκευάσατο207 καὶ ἁμάξας πληρώσας φρυγάνων καὶ βάτων παρέπεμψεν πρὸς τὸ τεῖχος, ἤδη τῶν πυλῶν κεκλεισμένων, ὡς τῶν Παριανῶν οὔσας τὰς ἁμάξας, αἵτινες208 ἐλθοῦσαι πρὸς τὰς πύλας ηὐλίζοντο, ὡς φοβούμεναι πολεμίους. 7 ἃς ἔδει ἐν καιρῷ τινι ὑφαφθῆναι, ἵνα αἱ πύλαι ἐμπρησθῶσι καὶ πρὸς τὸ σβεννύειν τῶν Παριανῶν ὁρμησάντων αὐτὸς κατὰ ἄλλον τόπον εἰσέλθῃ."
- ^ a b Heraclides Lembus, Excerpta Politiarum, 69."Ἀκραγαντίνων: […] μεθ’ ὃν Ἀλκαμένης παρέλαβε τὰ πράγματα, καὶ μετὰ τοῦτον Ἄλκανδρος προέστη, ἀνὴρ ἐπιεικής. καὶ εὐθένησαν οὕτως ὡς περιπόρφυρα ἔχειν ἱμάτια." (Constitution of the Acragantines. […] After him [i.e. Phalaris] Alcamenes seized the power, and after him, Alcander, a righteous man, governed. And they flourished to such an extent that they had himations fringed with purple”.) (DILTS 1971)
- ^ a b Diod.22.7.2,Polyaen.5.37.1
- ^ Aristotle, Constitution of Athens,17.4
- ^ Memnon of Heraclea,Chapter 9
- ^ Pausanias,2.21.8
- ^ Thucydides in Book II of his History of the Peloponnesian War
- ^ Hecataetus entry
- ^ Thucydides
- ^ Plutarch, Solon,14.4
- ^ Strabo,13.4
- ^ Aristophanes, Politica. v. 12. 1315 b 26; Nicolaus Damascenus, fr. 60, Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum iii. 393
- ^ Herodotus,Histories,4.138
- ^ Plutarch, Greek Questions 57
- ^ Herodotus 8.85,Herodotus,9.90
- ^ Pausanias,6.19.1
- ^ Frontinus’ “Strategemata”.
- ^ Herodotus,5.94
- ^ Plutarch,Pericles, 20
- ^ Herodotus,3.136.2
- ^ Deipnosophistae,book 5,215
- ^ Polyaenus: Stratagems,BOOK 2,1.27
- ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, §7.288
