- Wikidata e la ricerca. Condividere esperienze / Wikidata and Research. Sharing Experiences
- Edited by Elena Marangoni, Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo
Collecting and Detecting Ancient Greek Historians through Wikibase and Wikidata
- Leonardo D’Addario
- © 2026 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-1010-2.14
This paper explores the potential of Wikibase and Wikidata for the collection and analysis of data and metadata about the quotations of Ancient Greek writers in The Histories of Polybius. This research is conducted within the framework of my PhD project “Detecting and retrieving lost historians” at Leipzig University. Most works of ancient Greek historians are lost and survive only through quotations by later sources. Classical scholars call these quotations “fragments.” The PhD project focuses on The Histories of Polybius (206–124 BCE ca.) as this work contains various references to earlier historiographers. To achieve these goals, I am developing a Wikibase instance called The Library of Polybius that collects data on the quotations of the lost historiographers cited by Polybius.
- Keywords:
- ancient Greek historiography,
- Polybius,
- Wikibase,
- digital classics,
Leipzig University, Germany - ORCID: 0009-0004-5271-3878
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Collecting and Detecting Ancient Greek Historians through Wikibase and Wikidata
Authors
Leonardo D’Addario
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1010-2.14
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title
Wikidata e la ricerca. Condividere esperienze / Wikidata and Research. Sharing Experiences
Book Subtitle
Atti del Convegno, Firenze, 5-6 giugno 2025 / Conference proceedings, Florence, 5-6 June 2025
Editors
Elena Marangoni, Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
378
Publication Year
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1010-2
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979-12-215-1009-6
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979-12-215-1010-2
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919