Digital Appendix
Multidisciplinary approaches to the representation of direct speech in Greek and Latin epic
Data, code, and interactive resources accompanying the chapters of the volume.
Chapter 2: Vocatives in Homer and Quintus of Smyra
Numerical and annotated data on vocatives in Iliad, Odyssey, and Posthomerica.
| documentation | Numerical overview of the occurrence of vocatives per type and per book of the Iliad, Odyssey, and Posthomerica, with notes on selection criteria. |
| data | Tables of all words in direct speech in Iliad 1, Odyssey 1, and Posthomerica 1, comparing CLTK and spaCy tags. Each parser has been manually validated. |
| web app | Interactive application with hand-corrected text of all speeches in the validation set. |
Chapter 3: A Computational Approach to Characters’ Intentional Repetitions in Homeric Epic
Reproducible experiments on intentional repetition in Homeric speeches.
| repository | Data and Python code used for the experiments detecting repetition, in annotated Jupyter Notebooks that allow the experiments to be rerun. |
Chapter 5: Between epic and epideictic: direct speech in Claudian’s political poems through a digital lens
Quantitative analysis and interactive visualizations for Claudian’s political poems.
| repository | Data and Python code used for the experiments described in the chapter, including interactive HTML graphs corresponding to the printed figures. |
| web app | Interactive visualization of all chapter figures. |
Chapter 9: Measuring Dialogism in Latin Epic
Materials in preparation.
| coming soon | Link to code repository awaiting revisions by the author. |
Chapter 10: The (annotated) language of the Homeric Heroes. Towards a treebank-based approach
Materials in preparation.
| coming soon | Link to code repository awaiting revisions by the author. |
Chapter 11: Speech style in Ovid
Reproducible resources for the analysis of speech style in Ovid.
| coming soon | Raw code and data for each case study are available from the authors on request during review. At publication, data and code will be released in a public GitHub repository to promote reproducible research. |
Chapter 12: Speech and emotion in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica
Annotated emotional states for speakers, addressees, and audiences.
| data | Spreadsheet with detailed records of speaker emotional states and heatmap visualization. |
| data | Spreadsheet with detailed records of addressee and audience emotional states and heatmap visualization. |
Chapter 13: Quantifying Genre. A Study in Tragic voices in Roman Epic
Accuracy calculations and corpus-scale tests for genre classification.
| documentation | Table with accuracy calculations for the computer-assisted analysis. |
| repository | Code used for the section “Testing the hypothesis on corpus scale”. |
Chapter 18: Listen to mummy! Epic mother speech and persuasion from Homer to Nonnus
Notebooks, data, and an interactive web app for mother speech features.
| repository | Notebooks and necessary ancillary data for all experiments reported in the chapter. |
| web app | Interactive application containing downloadable and searchable results, including graphs and marked texts for every speech in the DICES corpus. |
Chapter 19: Using networks to explore the relationship between characters and the words they speak in Homer’s Iliad
Materials in preparation.
| coming soon | Link to code repository awaiting revisions by the author. |