Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Christopher W. Forstall and Berenice Verhelst -- Part 1 Form -- 2 Vocatives in the Speeches of Homer and Quintus of Smyrna -- Irene J.F. de Jong -- 3 A Computational Approach to Characters’ Intentional Repetitions in Homeric Epic -- Ombretta Cesca and Matteo Romanello -- 4 Exhortations in Silius Italicus’ Punica -- Christoph Schwameis and Jan R. Telg genannt Kortmann -- 5 Between epic and epideictic: direct speech in Claudian’s political poems through a digital lens -- Valéry Berlincourt -- Part 2 Tradition -- 6 Epic speech and intertextuality: The epyllium Telephi in its literary context -- Martina Delucchi -- 7 Hannibal, Hercules, and the Livian Narrators of Silius Italicus’ Punica -- Charles W. Oughton -- 8 Desine grande loqui: Characters and speeches in the Psychomachia of Prudentius -- Roberto Chiappiniello -- Part 3 Style -- 9 Measuring Dialogism in Latin Epic -- Patrick J. Burns -- 10 The (annotated) language of the Homeric Heroes: Towards a treebank-based approach -- Francesco Mambrini -- 11 Computational Stylometry and Speech Style in Ovid’s Metamorphoses -- Thomas J. Bolt, Pramit Chaudhuri and Joseph Dexter -- Part 4 Emotion -- 12 Speech and emotion in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica -- Rebekka Schirner -- 13 Quantifying Genre: A Study in Tragic Voices in Roman Epic -- Bernhard Söllradl -- 14 Characterizational “swerves” in the speeches of Achilles in Greek and Latin Literature -- William J. Dominik -- Part 5 Interaction -- 15 κερτομέω in context(s) in Greek epic poetry -- Deborah Beck -- 16 Speaking Fake News in Flavian Epic -- Melissande Tomcik -- 17 Evaluating workplace relationships in the Homeric Iliad : bringing together digital approaches and social and cognitive theory -- Elizabeth Minchin -- 18 Listen to mummy! Epic mother speech and persuasion from Homer to Nonnus -- Christopher W. Forstall and Berenice Verhelst -- 19 Using networks to explore the relationships between characters and the words they speak in Homer’s Iliad -- Jeff Rydberg-Cox -- Glossary -- Digital appendix -- Index.

Direct speech is a key feature of epic poetry. It has mimetic and rhetorical qualities, contributes to the characterization of the heroes and conveys emotions. This volume accompanies the launch of the DICES Database of Greek and Latin Epic Speech, mapping direct speech representation from Homer to Late Antiquity. It presents exploratory and methodologically innovative case studies by the project’s interdisciplinary group of test users. The project seeks to inspire future research in the field, promoting Digital Humanities methods, drawing on theoretical insights from the fields of social psychology, the study of emotions, and narratology, and expanding the epic canon.

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