Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG)
- ️Monica Berti
Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum
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DFHG Project
The Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG) is the digital edition of the five volumes of the Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (FHG) produced by Monica Berti at the Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig.
The FHG consists of a survey of excerpts from many different sources pertaining to 636 ancient Greek fragmentary historians. Excluding the first volume, authors are chronologically distributed and cover a period of time from the 6th century BC through the 7th century CE. Fragments are numbered sequentially and arranged by works and book numbers, when these pieces of information are available in the source texts preserving the fragments. Almost every Greek fragment is translated or summarized into Latin. The Müller-Jacoby Table of Concordance allows to search correspondences among authors published in the FHG, the FGrHist, and the BNJ.
The digital editions of FHG vol. 1 (7.4 MB), FHG vol. 2 (6.4 MB), FHG vol. 3 (7.8 MB), FHG vol. 4 (7.4 MB), FHG vol. 5-1 (2.9 MB) and vol. 5-2 (3.9 MB) are available online. They collect fragments of authors from the 6th century BC through the 2nd century CE, including Apollodorus of Athens (with fragments of the Bibliotheca), historians of Sicily (Antiochus of Syracuse, Philistus of Syracuse, Timaeus of Tauromenius), the Atthidographers (Clidemus, Phanodemus, Androtio, Demo, Philochorus and Ister), Aristotle and his disciples, historians from the time of Alexander the Great until 306 CE, fragments from the beginning of the reign of Constantine (306 CE) through the reign of the emperor Phocas (602-610 CE), and Greek and Syriac historical fragments preserved in Armenian texts. The text of the Marmor Parium (with Latin translation, chronological table, and commentary) and the Greek text of the Marmor Rosettanum (with a French literal translation as well as a critical, historical, and archaeological commentary) are online in a seperate appendix at the end of vol. 1.
The five volumes of the FHG are freely available online through Google Books and Internet Archive. The complete text of the FHG has been OCRed and converted to a machine-readable format as part of the Open Greek and Latin Project (OGL) of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig. The DFHG is a model for producing digital editions of fragmentary texts. A full description of characteristics and goals of the project is available in the monograph Digital Editions of Historical Fragmentary Texts (DCB 5, 2021) by Monica Berti. A review of the DFHG Project has been recently published by Richard Fernando Buxton on the Society for Classical Studies blog. For information about digital data of ancient Greek fragmentary authors available online, see the DFHG Fragmentary Texts.
5 FHG volumes
636 FHG authors
979 FHG works
7256 Fragments
7925 Source Texts
2315700 Tokens
Tools
The DFHG offers an easier and deeper access to the Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (FHG) thanks to a rich set of capabilities and tools that take advantage of web technologies and database functionalities. The DFHG appears as an Ajax web page automatically generated by a PHP script querying an SQL database of FHG contents. The DFHG is accessible by browsing the whole collection or selecting single volumes.
Named Entities Recognition
Additional Tools
How To
Navigate the DFHG
Expand and collapse authors and works in the DFHG slide in/out navigation menu to navigate the FHG down to the fragment level. Following the link to each navigation menu element, it is possible to jump to the relevant section of the FHG in the DFHG main page (37 MB) without reloading it.
Perform a Search
DFHG contents (introductions, fragments, translations, commentaries and source texts) are searchable both by holding down the SHIFT-key when higlighting words with the mouse in the DFHG main page and by searching words directly in the search tool.
Export Citations
Using URN identifiers, it is possible to export citations of DFHG fragments and source texts down to the word level. By selecting a portion of text holding down the ALT-key in the DFHG main page, users get a pop-up window with the URN that identifies the selected chunk of text.
Search the Indices
The DFHG includes also the indices that are sometimes published at the end of FHG volumes. It is possible to find index entries in two ways: 1) by clicking the bookmark icon under each fragment number and page for the entries of that specific fragment that are included in the index; 2) by searching entries directly in the indices.