Stylometry and Method. The Case of Euripides
Nick Laan · Literary and Linguistic Computing · 1995
This paper raises some methodological points concerning stylometry. Thorough description of an author‘s style should be considered the sine qua non of any stylometric study and, ideally, a study of the differences in style within the works of an author should precede an attribution or chronology study concerning that same author. These points are illustrated by a discussion of the results of some stylometric studies of Euripides (485–406 BC), including a number of preliminary results from my own work on elision in his iambic trimeters.