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. Irene J.F. de Jong, Vocatives in the Speeches of Homer and Quintus of Smyra
| 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. Ombretta Cesca and Matteo Romanello, A Computational Approach to Characters’ Intentional Repetitions in Homeric Epic
| repository | Data and Python code used for the experiments detecting repetition, in annotated Jupyter Notebooks that allow the experiments to be rerun. |
Chapter 5. Valéry Berlincourt, Between Epic and Epideictic: Direct Speech in Claudian’s Political Poems through a Digital Lens
| 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. Patrick J. Burns, Measuring Dialogism in Latin Epic
| repository | Data and Python code used for the experiments described in the chapter. |
Chapter 10. Francesco Mambrini, The (Annotated) Language of the Homeric Heroes: Towards a Treebank-Based Approach
| repository | Companion code repository including Jupyter Notebooks, raw data, and figures. |
Chapter 11. Thomas J. Bolt, Pramit Chaudhuri, and Joseph P. Dexter, Computational Stylometry and Speech Style in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
| repository | 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. Rebekka Schirner, Speech and Emotion in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica
| web app | Interactive view of heat map visualization. |
Chapter 13. Bernhard Söllradl, Quantifying Genre. A Study in Tragic voices in Roman Epic
| documentation | Table with accuracy calculations for the computer-assisted analysis. |
| repository | Code used for the section “Testing the hypothesis on corpus scale”. |
Chapter 18. Christopher W. Forstall and Berenice Verhelst, Listen to Mummy! Epic Mother Speech and Persuasion from Homer to Nonnus
| 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. |