Rhythm and Vocabulary of Greek Hexameter: From Formula to Topolexis

Rueda Juan, S.P.; Belousova, A.; Charris, P.R.

Авторы: Sebastián Páramo Rueda Juan, Belousova Anastasia, Charris Paula Ruiz
Сборник: Tackling the Toolkit: Plotting Poetry through Computational Literary Studies
Глава в коллективной монографии
Год издания: 2022
Место издания: Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Первая страница: 95
Последняя страница: 110
DOI: 10.51305/icl.cz.9788076580336.07
Аннотация: The article discusses the results of our application of a computer program createdfor the automatic analysis of lexical distribution based on rhythmic position in Greekhexameter.For this purpose, we introduce the concept of the topolexis (in Greek τοπολέξις:from τόπος “place” and λέξις “expression, word”), which describes each word basedon its position in the given line and is expressed as the word in combination withtwo sets of numerals. The topolexis “52Ἀχιλῆος62”, for example, indicates that theword Ἀχιλῆος begins at the second syllable of the fifth foot (52) and ends at the secondsyllable of the sixth foot (62).We investigate the behavior of topolexes in a corpus that includes Homer’s TheIliad and The Odyssey and Apollonius Rhodius’ The Argonautica. We find that thedistribution of topolexes of different frequencies varies among these texts. WhileThe Argonautica contains a greater number of unique topolexes, higher-frequencytopolexes are more common in Homer’s poems. The “formulaicity ratio”, which wedefine as the ratio of distinct topolexes in a text to its overall topolexis count, is higherfor Homer. In addition, we obtain and analyze data about Hesiod’s The Theogony.Although The Theogony is only 1,023 lines long, it exhibits the same tendencies asHomeric hexameter. We are, thus, able to clearly and accurately compare the behaviorof topolexes in epic hexameter in the formulaic style and in its literary imitation byApollonius.Lastly, we run a test to compare the performances of the topolexes and the mostfrequent words (MFW) as stylometric indicators for determining text authorship. Wefind that while topolexes enable us to correctly cluster fragments by their author, theydo not outperform the MFW in this respect.
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