›Prometheus Bound‹ – A Separate Authorial Trace in the Aeschylean Corpus

Nikos Manousakis

Published by De Gruyter 2020

›Prometheus Bound‹ – A Separate Authorial Trace in the Aeschylean Corpus

Nikos Manousakis

Volume 98 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110687675

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About this book

Classics, Computer Science, and Linguistics are brought together in this book, in an attempt to provide an answer to the authorship question concerning Prometheus Bound, a disputed play in the Aeschylean corpus, by applying some well-established Computer Stylistics methods. One of the main objectives of Stylometry, which, broadly speaking, is the study of quantified style, is Authorship Attribution. In its traditional form it can range from manually calculating descriptive statistics to the use of computer-assisted methodologies. However, non-traditional Authorship Attribution drastically changed the field. It brought together modern Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence applications (machine learning, natural language processing), and its key characteristic is that it aims at developing fully-automated systems for the attribution of texts of unknown authorship. In this book the author employs a series of supervised and unsupervised techniques used in non-traditional Authorship Attribution–applied here for the first time in ancient drama. The outcome of the analysis indicates a significant distance between the disputed text and the secure plays of Aeschylus, but also various interesting (micro-linguistic) ties of affinity with other authors, especially Sophocles and Euripides.

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Nikos Manousakis, University of Athens, Greece.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
1. General Conclusions, or How to Read this Book Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
3. Pr. and the Athetesis Question Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
4. Quantitative Style in Pr. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
5. Applying Automated Authorship Attribution to Greek Tragedy: The Case of Pr. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
6. Who Composed Pr.?: A Possibility Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Appendix I: The Distribution of Particles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
Appendix II: Changes in the Texts in the Main Corpus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Index nominum et rerum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: All those interested in Greek theater, Authorship Attribution studies, Computer Science applied in Classics.
Pages
- Front matter: 15
- Main content: 282
Illustrations
- Line drawings: 30
- Tables: 5
Keywords: Aeschylus; Authorship; Computer Stylistics; Artificial Intelligence

eBook

Published: May 5, 2020
ISBN: 9783110687675

Hardcover

Published: May 18, 2020
ISBN: 9783110687644