Brill’s New Jacoby (BNJ), a thoroughly revised English edition of Felix Jacoby’s Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker: Parts I-III (nearly. While produced two centuries ago and superseded by the monumental edition of Felix Jacoby (Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker), Müller’s FHG is still a. Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker is available in print, and now also online as part of the online reference work Jacoby Online. Please click here for.
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In particular, fragmfnte is very suitable for providing rapid, broad coverage and an extensive foundation upon which a new generation of born-digital editions of fragmentary texts can build.
The result is a bit displeasing aesthetically, but the important point is that it can all be read clearly at whatever size the text is set. Retrieved from ” https: CS1 German-language sources de Webarchive template wayback links. Books Available for Review.
At the same time, and more significantly, this same testimonium contains both “a” and “c” in the margins. It includes five bundled products: No eBook available Amazon. His recent publications include “Le sacrifice humaine en Grece ancienne,” “Athens-Liege,” For the first volume alone, Jacoby had 16 historier pages of corrigenda typos, wrong references, missing words and twenty pages of addenda.
Jacoby Online
Click on the fragment or testimonium number, and you are taken to Jacoby’s commentary on that specific piece. Contents Timaios of Lokroi Epizephyrioil. These two things aside, the page appears pretty much as it does in the books, and four cursors appear at the top of each page so that the reader can move forward or backward in each case by either 1 or 5 pages at a time.
Naturally, a bigger screen means greater ease of reading: Fornara Part 4, Biography and antiquarian literature.
References to this book Athenaeum, Volume 7; Volume 87 Snippet view – Before Greek biography emerged as a literary genre of its own at the beginning of the Hellenistic period, biographical interest already found expression in various other forms of literature. Spezialgeschichten, Autobiographien und Memoiren, Zeittafeln [Nr. This electronic edition, as the publishers inform us, is “page based”, i. Brill- History – pages. griiechischen
Illyrien – Thrakien [Nr. In Most, Glenn W. Grlechischen apparatus criticus is not printed at the bottom of the page. Yet the sheer bulk of the material and the lack of transparency of the plan make the Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker difficult to use and it is often avoided by students.
Second, and more importantly, I can’t help but think that an important opportunity has been missed by producing the “electronic Jacoby” in the way that Brill has. This project is expected to be completed in and will consist of the fragments and testimonia of 96 Greek historians. There are two word-search features. Recent updates for Jacoby Online January – August Teil 1, Genealogie und Mythographie.
First, some testimonia and even fragments of the historians are in Latin. Biography and Antiquarian Literature General Editor: Finally, one can now search through Jacoby’s commentary, a mine of information which is usually difficult to exploit.
The raw data files are inserted into the SQL DB enriched with information useful to perform searches and citation extraction. The project was divided into five parts, of which only the first three were published. Excluding the first volume, these authors are chronologically distributed and cover a period of time from the 6th century BC through the 7th century CE.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The work thus far comes to fifteen volumes, but the fourth biography and antiquarian literature and the fifth part historical geography were never done. My library Help Advanced Book Griehischen. The program defaults to a home page that contains an excellent detailed history of Jacoby and his work on FGrHistwritten by Mortimer Chambers this is also printed in the booklet that accompanies the CD-Rom. When Jacoby published the first volume inhe could not yet know what number, much less what testimonium or fragment number, he would assign to authors who appeared later in the collection.
Notes, Addenda, Corrigenda, Index. There is no problem in using numbers plus letters for authors e. The marginalia, alas, are not interactive, and the addenda and corrigenda sections must be manually searched. Had a way been found to incorporate all of these, we would have FGrHist as Jacoby really wished to make it. Those interested in the history grechischen classical scholarship can also exploit this tool, as a glance at the results from “Wilamowitz” hits, though of course many are simply references to his works will reveal.
In Microsoft Word, I had only to use “Match Destination Formatting” to change the font from that used in the program to the one I use which is Antioch. The first included the mythographers and the most ancient historians authors ; the second, the historians proper authors 64— ; the third, the autobiographies, local histories and works on foreign countries authors So, for example, you can enter “70 F 5” and be brought immediately to the page that contains fragment 5 of Ephorus.
No doubt with patience, even this can be worked out. I could fit both pages on a inch screen only at the “smaller” Internet Explorer setting for text; on a de screen, however, I could use the “medium” setting and even, with a bit of finesse, the “large. For example, F1 of Ctesias F 1 goes on for 28 pages in Jacoby’s text. Sign in to annotate.
Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG)
Go to Online Edition. Indexes of Ancient Authors”. I reviewed these volumes at BMCR Installation is quick and easy, and it takes only about 3 or 4 minutes for the files to be copied onto a hard drive. I found this to be a most convenient feature, and its ease of ddr may even encourage students to consult the app.