A.A. Barb, "Antaura. The Mermaid and the Devil's Grandmother: A Lecture", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 29 (1966), p. 5; "at least to the 2nd century", Sara Iles Johnston, Religions of the Ancient World (Harvard University Press, 2004), p. 122; "probably dates to the third century", James H. Charlesworth, "Jewish Interest in Astrology", Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II 20.2 (1987) pp. 935–936 et al.
Testament of Solomon 58–59, translation and introduction by F.C. Conybeare, Jewish Quarterly Review 11 (1898), p. 30 online.
Fr. George R.A. Aquaro, Death by Envy: The Evil Eye and Envy in the Christian Tradition (iUniverse, 2004), p. 99 online.
Roy Kotansky, "Incantations and Prayers on Inscribed Greek Amulets", in Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion, edited by Christopher A. Faraone and Dirk Obbink (Oxford University Press, 1991), pp. 113–114 and 119; on exorcism of the childbirth demon, Vasilakē, Maria (2005). Images of the Mother of God: Perceptions of the Theotokos in Byzantium. Ashgate Pub. p. 256. ISBN978-0-7546-3603-8.
Sergio Giannobile and D.R. Jordan, "A Lead Phylactery from Colle san Basilio (Sicily)", Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 46 (2006), p. 80, citing Cod.Marc.gr.app. II 163 in F. Pradel, Griechische und süditalienische Gebete, Beschwörungen und Rezepte des Mittelalters, RGVV 3.3 (1907) 23–24 online for the relevant passage in Greek.
Sappho, frg. 178 in Poeta Lesbiorum fragmenta, edited by Edgar Lobel and Denys Page (Oxford 1955), p. 101; Karen Hartnup, On the Beliefs of the Greeks: Leo Allatios and Popular Orthodoxy (Brill, 2004), pp. 35, 85–86, 149–150, limited preview online.
Barb, "Antaura", especially pp. 2–5; Georg Luck, Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds. A Collection of Ancient Texts (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, 2nd ed. 2006), p. 281 online; Roy Kotansky, "Jesus and the Lady of the Abyss (Mark 2:25–34): Hieros gamos, Cosmogony, and the Elixir of Life", in Antiquity and Humanity: Essays on Ancient Religion and Philosophy Presented to Hans Dieter Betz on His 70th Birthday (Mohr Siebeck, 2001), p. 100, note 49 online; Roy Kotansky, "An Early Christian Gold lamella for Headache", in Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World (Brill, 2001), pp. 41–42 online; Vivian Nutton, Ancient Medicine (Routledge, 2004), p. 274 online. Full discussion of this amulet in Roy Kotansky, Greek Magical Amulets: The Inscribed Gold, Silver, Copper, and Bronze Lamellae: Text and Commentary (Opladen : Westdeutscher Verlag, 1994), 1.270–300 (nos. 52.93–95), esp. 279, 295–96.
Christopher Walter, The Warrior Saints in Byzantine Art and Tradition (Ashgate Publishing, 2003), p. 241 online.
