Linked project · Digital editions
FragTrag
Recovering the wider world of Greek tragedy through fragmentary texts and the lives of its poets.
Linked project · hosted by the institution named below.
The research question
What survives of the tragedians beyond the familiar three?
FragTrag.1 is preparing an open-access database and digital edition for 46 tragedians of the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. It brings together biographical evidence and surviving fragments of tragedies and satyr plays.
Aims & approach
- Gather evidence about poets’ lives and careers.
- Prepare digital editions of fragmentary dramatic works.
- Enable open access to a less familiar dramatic tradition.
Explore the outputs & resources
Project facts & funding
- Host
- Department of Philology, University of Patras
- Funding
- Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation
- Project number
- 85
- Project contact
- Andreas Antonopoulos
- Scope
- 46 tragedians · 6th–5th centuries BCE
Image credits
Theatre of Dionysos, Athens · dronepicr · CC BY 2.0.
Images resized and converted to WebP. Historical illustrations provide context; they are not project results.
CC BY 2.0 licence