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
Scripts to generate relevant features can be found in src/
Spreadsheets demonstrating a statistical analysis can be found in spreadsheets/
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
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.