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