Virgilian Criticism and the Intertextual Aeneid

Automated Attribution and Intertextual Analysis

In this work, we employ quantitative methods from the realm of statistics and machine learning to develop novel methodologies for author attribution and textual analysis. In particular, we develop techniques and software suitable for applications to Classical study, and we illustrate the efficacy of our approach in several interesting open questions in the field. We apply our numerical analysis...

About labbe's "intertextual distance"

In the 2001, Volume 8, Number 3, issue of the Journal of Quantitative Linguistics (pp. 213 – 231) M. M. Dominique and Cyril Labbé published a paper entitled “Inter-Textual Distance and Authorship Attribution. Corneille and Molière”. Dominique and Cyril Labbé (hereafter referred to as DCL) propose a new formula for the computation of dissimilarity between texts, as well as a distances scale. The...

Which "Aeneid" in Whose Nineties?

I suppose that I ought to feel well-prepared to speak about the future of studies on the Aeneid, having just read and reviewed two new books dealing with the theme of prophecy in that poem. In reality, though, I feel utterly unable to make comfortable predictions about where our epic voyages will take us-particularly as one of the books I alluded to, Professor O'Hara's, sees prophecy in the Aen...

The Art of Criticism? Criticism as Art!

Virgil’s Aeneid in Neronian Literature (Murley)

Virgil’s Aeneid has left an infinitely quotable legacy. Considered by many generations the pinnacle of Latin literature, it was all-but-required reading for the Roman elite from Augustus onward. The influence of the Aeneid on the extant works of the Silver Age of Latin literature is clear, though it takes various forms. Lucan’s Bellum Civile explicitly draws from the epic tradition Romanized by...