Fragment Editions — Ancient Ecology
27 critical editions of geographical & ecological fragments — Hecataeus of Miletus, Eratosthenes, Agatharchides of Cnidus, and Hellanicus of Lesbos.
Each is a Brill’s New Jacoby / Jacoby (FGrH)-based text carrying a codepoint-verified open-corpus apparatus — the audited differences between the BNJ base and the corresponding open digital witness (Athenaeus, Strabo, Diodorus, Cleomedes, Agathemerus, ps.-Demetrius, the Homer scholia, Gellius, &c.). Collation was source-grounded against the on-disk Perseus corpora and adversarially audited (2026-06-26). “In-span” marks an edition whose witness covers the verified core but not the full quotation.
Hecataeus of Miletus
- FGrH 1 F 1a — ps.-Demetrius, De elocutione 12 converged
- FGrH 1 F 1b — ps.-Demetrius, De elocutione 2 converged
- FGrH 1 F 301 — Arrian, Anabasis 5.6.5 converged
- FGrH 1 F 302b — Herodotus, Histories 2.19-23 converged
- FGrH 1 F 323a — Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 10.447c converged
- FGrH 1 F 36a — Agathemerus, Geographiae informatio 1,1 converged
- FGrH 1 F 36b — Herodotos 4.36 converged
- FGrH 1 F 36b — Herodotus, Histories 4.36 converged
- FGrH 1 T 11a — Strabo, Geographica 1.1.1 converged
- FGrH 1 T 11b — Strabo, Geographica 1.1.11 converged
- FGrH 1 T 12a — Agathemerus, Geographiae informatio 1,1 converged
- FGrH 1 T 5 — Herodotus, Histories 5.36.1-4 converged
Eratosthenes of Cyrene
- FGrH 241 (chlamys) — Eratosthenes, Geographika — chlamys-shape of the oikoumene (Strabo, Geographica 2.5.14) converged
- FGrH 241 (circumference) — Eratosthenes, Geographika — earth's circumference (Cleomedes, Caelestia 1.7); cf. FGrH 241 (chronogr./lit. only) in-span
- FGrH 241 (circumnav) — Eratosthenes, Geographika — circumnavigability (Strabo, Geographica 1.4.6) converged
- FGrH 241 (diaphragma) — Eratosthenes, Geographika — main parallel / diaphragma through Rhodes (Strabo, Geographica 2.1.1) converged
- FGrH 241 (sphragides) — Eratosthenes, Geographika — sphragides, first seal = India (Strabo, Geographica 2.1.22) converged
Agatharchides of Cnidus
- FGrH 86 (goldmines) — Agatharchides of Cnidus, On the Erythraean Sea — Egyptian-Nubian gold mines (Diodorus Siculus 3.12.1; FGrH 86, Diodoran recension) converged
- FGrH 86 (sabaeans) — Agatharchides of Cnidus, On the Erythraean Sea §97 — the Sabaeans and incense coast of Arabia (Photius, Bibliotheca cod. 250; Müller GGM I p.186; FGrH 86) converged
Hellanicus of Lesbos
- FGrH 4 F 4 — Dionysios Hal., Antiquitates Romanae 1.28 converged
- FGrH 4 F 53 — Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 11.470d converged
- FGrH 4 F 54 — Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 15.679f–680a converged
- FGrH 4 F 66 — Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 10.447c; Κτίσεις Ἐθνῶν καὶ Πόλεων converged
- FGrH 4 F 67 — Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 11.462ab; Ἐθνῶν Ὀνομασίαι converged
- FGrH 4 F 71 — Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 8.294; Περὶ Χίου Κτίσεως in-span
- FGrH 4 F 79b — Dionysios Hal., Antiquitates Romanae 1.22 converged
- FGrH 4 T 3 — Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.23 converged
6 fragments held (attribution-only). Their witnesses are real (Stephanus of Byzantium’s
Ethnica, the Aetius
Placita, the Apollonius-Rhodius scholia, the Photius narrative) but are
not present in the open digital corpus, so no open-corpus collation was possible. The BNJ/Jacoby attribution stands; an edition awaits an offline-BNJ collation.
- FGrH 1 F 18a — Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.259
- FGrH 1 F 302d — Aetius, Placita Philosophorum 2.20.6
- FGrH 1 F 38 — Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Ἐλιβύργη; Εὐρώπη/Periodos bk 1
- FGrH 1 F 38 — Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. ᾽Ελιβύργη
- FGrH 1 F 55 — Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Μασσαλία; Εὐρώπη
- FGrH 4 F 73 — Photios/Suda s.v. Ζάμολξις; Βαρβαρικὰ Νόμιμα