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of ancient historical literature and second to categorize fragmentary
remains of that literature under these fixed genres was a concern of
early twentieth-century scholars. most evident in Jacoby's Die Fragmente
der griechischen Historiker. 3 The conceptional framework for
his collection was his notion that the genre of history developed in a
linear sequence from mythography to enthnography. through
chronography to contemporary history and onto horography.4 Each
author was arranged according to his place in this historical development
of the genre. Leo was simply part of the same phenomenon.
studying the development of a genre of historiography. namely biography.
according to its two literary forms and classifying the fragmentary
remains of all biographical works under these fixed categories.
In fact. Jacoby himself intended to gather the fragments of biographical
writers in FGrHist IV: originally biography was to be
treated with the history of literature and antiquarian literature with
horography.5 The plan changed and Jacoby eventually envisaged the
volume containing both antiquarian literature and biography. and
many modern scholars have seen a close connection between the two. 6
His outline of FGrHist IV of some 70 pages contained 24 rubrics under
which were listed various authors and titles of works. 7 But as G.
Schepens notes. several comments by Jacoby indicate that he was still
uneasy about the exact place to assign the history of literature in relation
to biography (somewhere between "Biographie" and "Sammlungen").8
and in the notes reproduced by Schepens there are indications
that Jacoby was at times uncertain how to classify particular works:
would they be better assigned to the genre of biography. or to literary-history.
music or "Sammelwerke"?9 This uncertainty about the
exact relationship between biography. antiquarian literature and literary
history. on the one hand. and where precisely or under what precise
genre to locate given works. on the other. is a problem that stems
not just from the fragmentary evidence which we are left to deal with
but also from the modern fixation with classifying various forms of
3 See especially Jacoby (1909) 80-122.
4 See Marincola (1999) 284-289.
5 Jacoby (1909) 61-62; d. Schepens (1997) 149.
6 Arrighetti (1977).
7 For a detail summary of the "Entwurf" and methodological problems facing
those undertaking the continuation of Jacoby's FGrHist. see Schepens (1997)
144-171.
8 Schepens (1997) 149.
9 Schepens (1997) 152-153.