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- Title
Comparative rates of text reuse in classical Latin hexameter poetry.
- Authors
Bernstein, Neil; Gervais, Kyle; Wei Lin
- Abstract
This paper presents a quantitative picture of the interactions between poets in the Latin hexameter tradition. The freely available Tesserae website (tesserae.caset.buffalo.edu) automatically searches pairs of texts in a corpus of over 300 works of Latin literature in order to identify instances where short passages share two or more repeated lexemes. We use Tesserae to survey relative rates of text reuse in 24 Latin hexameter works written from the 1[sup st] century BCE to the 6[sup th] century CE. We compare the quantitative information about text reuse provided by Tesserae to the scholarly tradition of qualitative discussion of allusion by Latinists.
- Subjects
HEXAMETER; VERSIFICATION; LATIN literature; LEXEME; LEXICOLOGY
- Publication
DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2015, Vol 9, Issue 3, p5
- ISSN
1938-4122
- Publication type
Article