Homer's Iliad – A Social Network Analytic Approach

Autor: Dimitrios Kydros, Panagiotis Notopoulos, Georgios Exarchos
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. 9:115-132
ISSN: 1755-1706
1753-8548
Popis: In this paper we provide some insights in Homer's Iliad from the perspective of social network analysis. We use the original text and other public available data to create a social network (i.e. a graph) that comprises of all actors in the Iliad together with their interactions. We present some visualizations of these data and discuss concepts like connectivity, connected components and groupings. Furthermore, we calculate some well-established metrics, coming from social network analysis in this social network and discuss the numerical results. These results indicate that the Iliadic network is a small-world network, rather dissasortative and relatively easy to disconnect.
Databáze: OpenAIRE