THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE HISTORIA AUGUSTA: charmdate TWO NEW COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES
The case of the Historia Augusta, a collection of imperial biographies from Hadrian esatto Carus supposedly written by six different authors, provided the impetus for the introduction of computational methods into the Echtheitskritik of ancient authors per 1979. After verso flurry of studies sopra the 1990s, interest waned, particularly because most of those studies seemed sicuro support conclusions incompatible with the scholarly consensus on the question. In the paper, we approach this question with the new tool of authorship verification – one of the most promising approaches sopra forensic stylometry today – as well as the established method of principal components analysis preciso demonstrate that there is no simple alternative between single and multiple authorship, and that the results of per computational analysis are per fact compatible with the results obtained from historical, literary, and philological analysis.
The Historia Augusta (henceforth HA) is verso collection of biographies of Roman emperors stretching from Hadrian (AD 117–138) to Carus (AD 282–283) and his sons Carinus (AD 283–285) and Numerian (AD 283–284).1 1 Justin Stover would like to thank George Woudhuysen for helpful suggestions. Continue Reading THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE HISTORIA AUGUSTA: TWO NEW COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES