Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta

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Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta ( TrGF ) is the title of several collections of the scattered fragments of Greek tragedy poets.

wagner

The first collection of this kind came from Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner , who published it in three volumes under the title Poetarum tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta 1844–1848. The first volume, which contained the fragments of the lost dramas of Aeschylus and Sophocles , he brought out in a new edition in 1852; Volume 2 contained the fragments by Euripides , Volume 3 those by other authors.

Nauck

The extensive collection by August Nauck , which appeared in one volume in 1856, was of great importance . His Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta provided, with consecutive numbering, not only the three great tragic figures but also countless previously unpublished authors. The work became an important reference in classical philology , especially in its second, revised edition (1889, reprint 1964) . Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff judged them in 1921: "His [Nauck's] Fragmenta tragicorum are unsurpassable in completeness, reliability and practical arrangement."

Snell, Radt and Kannicht

Numerous new finds, especially papyri, made a new fragment edition necessary in the course of the 20th century. It was finally tackled in the late 1960s and appeared in five volumes from 1971 to 2004 under the title Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta by the Göttingen publishing house Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , edited by Bruno Snell , Stefan Radt and Richard Kannicht .

  • Volume 1: Didascalia, catalogs, fragments of minor tragedians. Published by Bruno Snell, 1971, second revised edition 1986
  • Volume 2: Fragments without author, additional fragments and indices for volume 1. Edited by Richard Kannicht, 1981
  • Volume 3: Aeschylus. Edited by Stefan Radt, 1985. Second edition 2009
  • Volume 4: Sophocles. Edited by Stefan Radt, 1977. Second edition 1999
  • Volume 5 (in two parts): Euripides. Published by Richard Kannicht, 2004

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of Philology . Leipzig / Berlin 1921, p. 66.