BERT in Plutarch's Shadows
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| author | Yamshchikov, Ivan P. Tikhonov, Alexey Pantis, Yorgos Schubert, Charlotte Jost, Jürgen |
| author_facet | Yamshchikov, Ivan P. Tikhonov, Alexey Pantis, Yorgos Schubert, Charlotte Jost, Jürgen |
| contents | The extensive surviving corpus of the ancient scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea (ca. 45-120 CE) also contains several texts which, according to current scholarly opinion, did not originate with him and are therefore attributed to an anonymous author Pseudo-Plutarch. These include, in particular, the work Placita Philosophorum (Quotations and Opinions of the Ancient Philosophers), which is extremely important for the history of ancient philosophy. Little is known about the identity of that anonymous author and its relation to other authors from the same period. This paper presents a BERT language model for Ancient Greek. The model discovers previously unknown statistical properties relevant to these literary, philosophical, and historical problems and can shed new light on this authorship question. In particular, the Placita Philosophorum, together with one of the other Pseudo-Plutarch texts, shows similarities with the texts written by authors from an Alexandrian context (2nd/3rd century CE). |
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| spellingShingle | BERT in Plutarch's Shadows Yamshchikov, Ivan P. Tikhonov, Alexey Pantis, Yorgos Schubert, Charlotte Jost, Jürgen Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society Machine Learning 68T50 I.2.7; J.5 The extensive surviving corpus of the ancient scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea (ca. 45-120 CE) also contains several texts which, according to current scholarly opinion, did not originate with him and are therefore attributed to an anonymous author Pseudo-Plutarch. These include, in particular, the work Placita Philosophorum (Quotations and Opinions of the Ancient Philosophers), which is extremely important for the history of ancient philosophy. Little is known about the identity of that anonymous author and its relation to other authors from the same period. This paper presents a BERT language model for Ancient Greek. The model discovers previously unknown statistical properties relevant to these literary, philosophical, and historical problems and can shed new light on this authorship question. In particular, the Placita Philosophorum, together with one of the other Pseudo-Plutarch texts, shows similarities with the texts written by authors from an Alexandrian context (2nd/3rd century CE). |
| title | BERT in Plutarch's Shadows |
| topic | Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society Machine Learning 68T50 I.2.7; J.5 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05673 |