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References
- Burnett, Charles S. F. "A Note on the Origins of the Third Vatican Mythographer", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes44 (1981), pp. 160–166.
- Elliott, Kathleen O., and J. P. Elder. "A Critical Edition of the Vatican Mythographers", Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association78 (1947), pp. 189–207. (Summarizes results of research for an edition that never materialized.)
- Kulcsár, Péter. Mythographi Vaticani I et II. Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 91c. Turnhout: Brepols, 1987. ISBN 978-2-503-00917-9
- Pepin, Ronald E. The Vatican Mythographers. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8232-2892-8 (English translation of all three texts.)
- Zorzetti, Nevio, and Jacques Berlioz. Le Premier mythographe du Vatican. Collection des universités de France, Série latine. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1995. ISBN 978-2-251-01389-3 (Includes a French translation [by Berlioz] and extensive annotations.)
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