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license: agpl-3.0 |
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task_categories: |
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- text-classification |
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language: |
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- en |
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- el |
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- la |
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size_categories: |
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- 10K<n<100K |
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## Greek and Latin Authors |
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This dataset contains the names of authors who primarily wrote in Ancient Greek (labeled "Greek") |
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and authors who primarily wrote in Latin (labeled "Latin"). |
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The Greek names were gathered from the [Thesaurus Linguae Graecae](https://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/) (TLG) project. |
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Specifically, the TLG makes lists of authors openly available at <https://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/tlgauthors/post_tlg_e.php> |
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and <https://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/tlgauthors/cd.authors.php>. These names were supplemented by names from the |
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[Perseus](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/) project. |
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I also obtained the [Virtual International Authority File](https://viaf.org/) (VIAF) ID numbers for many Greek authors |
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from a database kept for the [Perseus Catalog](https://catalog.perseus.org/. I used the VIAF ID numbers to augment the |
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list of Greek author names with the alternate name forms for those authors. |
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Unfortunately, the lists of Greek names included some names of authors who primarily wrote in Latin. For example, |
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Cicero, Varro, Macrobius, Servius, and several others are in the Greek lists, presumably because they included |
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some Greek text in their writings. For the purposes of this dataset, those authors have been labeled as "Latin". |
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The names for authors who primarily wrote in Latin come from the authority records in the [Digital Latin Library's |
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Catalog](https://catalog.digitallatin.org/). |
