Gerasimova, L. V.; Ivanova, V. M.; Peskova, E. Yu.; Druzhinin, E. V. (1991). "Improving gold decorating techniques". Glass and Ceramics. 48 (11): 535. doi:10.1007/BF00676649. S2CID135923083.
Gerasimova, L. V.; Ivanova, V. M.; Peskova, E. Yu.; Druzhinin, E. V. (1991). "Improving gold decorating techniques". Glass and Ceramics. 48 (11): 535. doi:10.1007/BF00676649. S2CID135923083.
Book VI, 232: "And as when a man overlays silver with gold, a cunning workman whom Hephaestus and Pallas Athena have taught all manner of craft, and full of grace is the work he produces, even so the goddess shed grace upon his head and shoulders" from this translation