FGrHist

''Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker'', commonly abbreviated ''FGrHist'' or ''FGrH'' (''Fragments of the Greek Historians''), is a collection by Felix Jacoby of the works of those ancient Greek historians whose works have been lost, but of which we have citations, extracts or summaries. It is mainly founded on Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller's previous ''Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum'' (1841–1870).

The work was started in 1923 and continued by him till his death in 1959. The project was divided into six parts, of which only the first three were published. The first included the mythographers and the most ancient historians (authors 1-63); the second, the historians proper (authors 64–261); the third, the autobiographies, local histories and works on foreign countries (authors 262-856). Parts I-III come to fifteen volumes, but Jacoby never got to write part IV (biography and antiquarian literature) and V (historical geography). A pool of editors is currently trying to complete this task (''Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. Continued''); 200+ new entries have been published online so far (in English, German, French and Italian), with editions in print following for part IV. Meanwhile a new English-language edition of Jacoby's original work (parts I-III) has also been published online, ''Brill's New Jacoby'' (''BNJ''), with a completely new commentary, providing English translations of all fragments and an updated bibliography.Worthington, para. 2.

Volume index

* Felix Jacoby: ''Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker.'' (FGrHist) Weidmann, Berlin 1923ff. .
** Teil 1, Genealogie und Mythographie. - A. Vorrede, Text, Addenda, Konkordanz r. 1 - 63 Weidmann, Berlin 1923; Neudr. verm. um Addenda zum Text, Nachtr. zum Kommentar, Corrigenda u. Konkordanz. Brill, Leiden 1957.
** Teil 2, Zeitgeschichte. - A. Universalgeschichte und Hellenika r. 64-105 Weidmann, Berlin, 1926.
** Teil 2, Zeitgeschichte. - B. Spezialgeschichten, Autobiographien und Memoiren, Zeittafeln r. 106-261 Weidmann, Berlin 1926-1930.
** Teil 2, Zeitgeschichte. - C. Kommentar zu Nr. 64 – 105. Weidmann, Berlin 1926.
** Teil 2, Zeitgeschichte. - D. Kommentar zu Nr. 106 – 261. Weidmann, Berlin 1930.
** Teil 3, Geschichte von Staedten und Voelkern (Horographie und Ethnographie). - A. Autoren ueber verschiedene Staedte (Laender) r. 262-296 Brill, Leiden, 1940.
** Teil 3, Geschichte von Staedten und Voelkern (Horographie und Ethnographie). - A. Kommentar zu Nr. 262 – 296. Brill, Leiden 1943.
** Teil 3, Geschichte von Staedten und Voelkern (Horographie und Ethnographie). - B. Autoren ueber einzelne Staedte (Laender) r. 297 – 607 Brill, Leiden, 1954.
** Teil 3, Geschichte von Staedten und Voelkern. - B (Suppl.), A commentary on the ancient historians of Athens. - Vol. 1. Text. Brill, Leiden, 1954.
** Teil 3, Geschichte von Staedten und Voelkern. - B (Suppl.), A commentary on the ancient historians of Athens. - Vol. 2. Notes, Addenda, Corrigenda, Index. Brill, Leiden 1954.
** Teil 3, Geschichte von Staedten und Voelkern. - B, Kommentar zu Nr. 297 - 607. Text – Noten. Brill, Leiden, 1955.
** Teil 3, Geschichte von Staedten und Voelkern. - C, Autoren ueber einzelne Laender. - Bd. 1. Aegypten - Geten r. 608a – 708 Leiden, Brill, 1958
** Teil 3, Geschichte von Staedten und Voelkern. - C, Autoren ueber einzelne Laender. - Bd. 2. Illyrien - Thrakien r. 709 – 856 Brill, Leiden, 1958.
** Teil 3, Geschichte von Staedten und Voelkern. – C, fasc. 1. Commentary on nos. 608a – 608. Brill, Leiden, 1994. (von Charles W. Fornara)
* Felix Jacoby: ''Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker'' continued.
** Part 4, Biography and antiquarian literature. – A, Biography. - Fasc. 1. The pre-Hellenistic period 000 – 1013 Brill, Leiden, 1998. (von Jan Bollansé u. a.)
** Part 4, Biography and antiquarian literature. – A, Biography. - Fasc. 3. Hermippos of Smyrna 026 Brill, Leiden, 1999 (von Jan Bollansé).
** Part 4, Biography and antiquarian literature. – A, Biography. - Fasc. 7. Imperial and undated authors 053 – 1118 Brill, Leiden, 1999. (von Jan Radicke)
** Part 4, Biography and antiquarian literature. – A, Biography. - Fasc. 8. Anonymous papyri 119-1139 Brill, Leiden, 2019.(James H. Brusuelas, Dirk Obbink, Stefan Schorn)
** Part 4, Biography and antiquarian literature. – B, History of literature, music, art and culture. – Fasc. 9. Dikaiarchos of Messene 400 Brill, Leiden, 2018. (Gertjan Verhasselt)
* Index: Jacoby Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker : Indexes of Parts I, II, and III: Indexes of ancient authors (1. Introduction, alphabetical list of authors conserving testimonia & fragments. – 2. Concordance Jacoby – source. - - 3. Alphabetical list of fragmentary historians with alphabetical list of source-authors for each). Brill, Leiden, 1999. (Pierre Bonnechere .
* Planned Continuation Volumes:
** IV B. History of Literature, Music, Art and Culture (and related genres)
** IV C. Politeiai, Nomoi, Nomima, On Cities, On Islands, Ktiseis, Aitia (and related genres)
** IV C 1. Politeiai, Nomoi and Nomima
** IV C 2. On Cities, On Islands, Ktiseis, Aitia (and related genres)
** IV C 3. Kallimachos
** IV D. History of Religion and Cult
** IV E. Paradoxography
** IV F. Collections, Anthologies and Hypomnemata (and related genres)

Notes

Citations

References

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* Worthington, Ian, "Response: Worthington on Marincola on Jacoby's FGrH", '' Bryn Mawr Classical Review'', 2005
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Further reading

* Payen, Pascal, "Réception des historiens anciens et fabrique de l'histoire", in ''Anabases'', Vol. 2, pp. 221–230, 2005. .

External links

Brill’s New Jacoby Online (BNJO)Müller-Jacoby Table of Concordance
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