An Experiment on Plato’s Gorgias as an Introduction to Textometry
Abstract
Current implementations of Digital Humanities for classical studies are often
either rich digital editions, with much effort devoted to display a pleasant
layout and to offer efficient navigation paths; or indexed corpora or
databases with querying facilities, for which the focus is on searching
functionalities and not on primary text visualization and reading. However,
through the example of the textometric approach (presented in section 1.1)
that is implemented in TXM open-source software (1.2), we would like to
show that complex textual representation and computational analysis can be
both taken into consideration into a unique digital framework (1.3). In order
to show that such a method can offer great possibilities for researchers in the
Classics field, we will give a more complete presentation of the methodology
applied to Plato’s Gorgias (section 2 and 3).
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