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Visualizing Data in the Quantitative Comparison of Ancient Texts: a Study of Paul, Epictetus, and Philodemus
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This chapter explores how to visualize the polythetic classification of ancient literature, specifically around Paul’s letters, Epictetus’ Discourses, and Philodemus’ On Piety and On Death. Building on previous research, the notion of polythetic classification is explored with respect to texts. Specific application then occurs with respect to Paul’s letters, showing how hand coding data in spreadsheets is necessary to capture the shape of a given piece of literary data. Such hand coding facilitates visualization of data, in the form of bar graphs and line graphs. These forms of visualization then allow for an empirical, transparent form of comparison between texts. Qualitative analysis can productively supplement this quantitative analysis, matching specific literary and conceptual context with second-order data analysis.
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- Authors
- Robertson, P.
- Corresponding author
- Robertson, Paul
- Venue
- Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Published
- 2019-05-14
- Pages
- 154-186
- OpenAlex
- W2945398172
- Cited by
- 2
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- BRILL eBooks (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Digital Humanities and Scholarship
- Social Sciences › General Social Sciences › Computational and Text Analysis Methods
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Classical Studies and Philology
- Keywords
- polythetic classification, ancient texts, Paul's letters, Epictetus, discourse, Philodemus, quantitative literary analysis, data visualization, bar charts, line graphs, textual comparison, qualitative and quantitative analysis
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