The Un-Platonic <i>Menexenus</i>: A Stylometric Analysis with More Data

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Analysis using word and character frequencies and focused on the Corpus Platonicum, together with philological arguments about authorship of the Menexenus, make attribution to Plato improbable.

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Thomas Koentges, Digital Humanities, University of Leipzig Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University

Thomas Koentges is an Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and a Fellow for Historical Language Processing and Data Analysis at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. He an associate of Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University, one of the most-visited resources for classicists worldwide. Thomas holds a Classics PhD from the University of Otago, his topic-modelling methods and tools have been used to research various morphologically complex languages, and his digital humanities survey course at Leipzig University introduces over one hundred new students to the field every year.

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2020-05-14

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