![]() I hope to have more to say on this later. ![]() I should note too that my observation of caesura(s) in performance is changing as I progress through the project and as my feel for the rhythm develops, so you should not look to my reading (at this point) for a consistent interpretation of pauses. ![]() arguments based on these data will only confirm and explain subjective choices made by me). It’s not clear to me that there’s any way to make a scientific judgment in all cases, and I wouldn’t like these data to contribute to any circular arguments (i.e. Often these breaks are pretty self-evident, but sometimes the performer has to decide (for instance) between a sense break or a formula break. Some lines do have one natural break, but some have none, some have two (Kirk’s “threefolders”), and a few have 3. The main reason I have included them here is so that my work may be of use to students who will be required to do so. I would not recommend using these for caesura statistics: some of the caesuras do need correcting, but more generally, I’m of the view that locating one main caesura in each line is inappropriate. You can open them up in a spreadsheet app, convert to sql etc. See the header row for info on the fields.Īll the Iliad scansion is available as a set of csv files: IliadAllCSV. The scheme of the hexameter is usually as. Each row of the spreadsheet is a syllable. Dactylic hexameter is a form of meter or rhythmic scheme frequently used in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry. 1 So then amid the huts the valiant son of Menoetius was tending the wounded Eurypylus, but the others, Argives and Trojans, fought on in throngs, nor were the ditch of the Danaans and their wide wall above long to protect them, 5 the wall that they had builded as a defence for their ships and. These should open in your spreadsheet app of choice. Here’s a zip archive with Iliad books 1-12: iliadcsv. I’ ll be uploading csv versions of the scansion. Lines are divs, and may be tagged with classes: speech, speaker’s name, new paragraph (for formatting only). Note that syllables that technically contain more than one word have to be treated as a single word. Each syllable is tagged as a span, with classes short/long, foot#, word#, wordend, hemi1/hemi2 (before or after main caesura), footend. If you’re interested in the scansion of the texts, you can use the source code of the pages as data.
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