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BERT in Plutarch's Shadows

arXiv 2211.05673 ↗First posted 10 Nov 2022cs.CL cs.AI cs.CYcited by 6

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Abstract (arXiv)

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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  1. 2023Exploring Large Language Models for Classical Philologycited by 10
  2. 2025Provocations from the Humanities for Generative AI Researchcited by 10
  3. 2023Sentence Embedding Models for Ancient Greek Using Multilingual Knowledge Distillationcited by 6
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  5. 2024Heidelberg-Boston @ SIGTYP 2024 Shared Task: Enhancing Low-Resource Language Analysis With Character-Aware Hierarchical Transformerscited by 1
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