›Prometheus Bound‹ - A Separate Authorial Trace in the Aeschylean Corpus / Nikos Manousakis.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Manousakis, Nikos, Author.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 98.

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 98

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aeschylus--Language--Data processing.

Aeschylus.

Aischylos.

Artificial Intelligence.

Authorship.

Computer Stylistics.

Der gefesselte Prometheus.

Griechische Tragödie.

Künstliche Intelligenz.

Local Subjects:

Aeschylus.

Aischylos.

Artificial Intelligence.

Authorship.

Computer Stylistics.

Der gefesselte Prometheus.

Griechische Tragödie.

Künstliche Intelligenz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

1. General Conclusions, or How to Read this Book

2. Introduction

3. Pr. and the Athetesis Question

4. Quantitative Style in Pr.

5. Applying Automated Authorship Attribution to Greek Tragedy: The Case of Pr.

6. Who Composed Pr.?: A Possibility

Appendix I: The Distribution of Particles

Appendix II: Changes in the Texts in the Main Corpus

Bibliography

Index nominum et rerum

Notes:

Dissertation Univ. of Athens 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9783110687675

3110687674

OCLC:

1158134520