THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE HISTORIA AUGUSTA: TWO NEW COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES.

The case of the Historia Augusta, a collection of imperial biographies from Hadrian to Carus supposedly written by six different authors, provided the impetus for the introduction of computational methods into the Echtheitskritik of ancient authors in 1979. After a flurry of studies in the 1990s, in...

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Publicado en:Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Vol. 59; no. 2; pp. 140 - 158
Autores principales: STOVER, JUSTIN A., KESTEMONT, MIKE
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Dec2016
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          All Souls College, University of Oxford
          Department of Literature, University of Antwerp
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        Augusta, Historia
        Authorship
        Stylometry
        Principal components analysis
        Computational linguistics
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