Multilevel Alignment of Iliadic Texts
Eells, Elias.
2021
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Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2021.
Submitted to the Dept. of Classics.
Advisor: Gregory Crane.
Committee: Matthew Harrington, and Ioannis Evrigenis.
Keywords: Ancient languages, Computer science, and Classical literature.
Parallel text alignment in the 21st century participates in a long-standing scholarly practice around Iliadic texts. The tools ... read moreused to describe and explicate alignment in the 21st century are born-digital and machine actionable. One such tool, Ducat, was applied to portions of Omega 1.12, an 11th century Byzantine manuscript of the Iliad that includes a running prose paraphrase, also in Greek. The paraphrase is marked by lexical simplification and cultural variation, serving as both a translation and a commentary on the poetic text. Alignment is also demonstrably useful in developing bird's-eye views of contemporary translations of the Iliad, both for a scholarly audience and for the public in review. Manual text alignment as a philological tool is broadly applicable and work in ongoing with texts beyond Homeric Epic, demonstrating the broad utility of the Ducat tool and careful consideration of the implications and benefits of parallel text alignment.read less - ID:
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