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elegiacs

Tools for analyzing Latin elegiac couplets

For more information on this work, please refer to the following extended abstract from DH 2014: http://www.wjscheirer.com/projects/language-literature/scheirer-forstall-abstract-dh2014.pdf

Code

Scripts to generate relevant features can be found in src/

Spreadsheets demonstrating a statistical analysis can be found in spreadsheets/

Data

Pre-processed texts for a selection of elegists can be downloaded via the following links.

Complete works of Catullus: http://www.tesserae-dev.org/elegiacs/catullus.tgz

Horace Odes: http://www.tesserae-dev.org/elegiacs/horace.tgz

Complete works of Martial: http://www.tesserae-dev.org/elegiacs/martial.tgz

Elegies of Ovid, plus the Metamorphoses: http://www.tesserae-dev.org/elegiacs/ovid.tgz

Complete works of Propertius: http://www.tesserae-dev.org/elegiacs/propertius.tgz

Complete works of Tibullus: http://www.tesserae-dev.org/elegiacs/tibullus.tgz

Vergil Aeneid: http://www.tesserae-dev.org/elegiacs/vergil.tgz

Texts used to assess meter's influence on word choice: http://www.tesserae-dev.org/elegiacs/meter_texts.tgz

Citing this Code

If you use this code in your own work, please cite the following works:

W.J. Scheirer and C.W. Forstall, "Euterpe's Hidden Song: Patterns in Elegy," Digital Humanities 2014 (DH), July 2014.

C.W. Forsall and W.J. Scheirer, "Features from Frequency: Authorship and Stylistic Analysis Using Repetitive Sound," Proceedings of the 4th Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS), November 2009.

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