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- ↑ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.16.2
- ↑ Tzetzes, John, Posthomerica 179-182 (translated by Ana Untila)
- ↑ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica
- ↑ Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft. Band II, Halbband 3, Apollon-Artemis (1895): s. 681, s. v. Areto
- 1 2 Blok, Josine H. The early Amazons: modern and ancient perspectives on a persistent myth. BRILL, 1995; page 218 (with a reference to Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae , "Amazones" entry, vol. 1, p. 653)
- ↑ Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (ed.): Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie. Band 2.1 (I-K), Leipzig, 1890–1894, p. 1429
- ↑ Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (ed.): Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie. Band VI (U-Z), Hildesheim, 1965, s. 518