Maths Meets Myths: Quantitative Approaches to Ancient Narratives
With an emphasis on exploring measurable aspects of ancient narratives, Maths Meets Myths sets out to investigate age-old material with new techniques. This book collects, for the first time, novel quantitative approaches to studying sources from the past, such as chronicles, epics, folktales, and m...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2017, 2017
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017 |
| Series: | Understanding Complex Systems
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Cognitive and Network Constraints in Real Life and Literature
- A Networks Approach to Mythological Epics
- Medieval Historical, Hagiographical and Biographical Networks
- Peopling of the New World from data on distributions of folklore motifs
- Phylogenetics Meets Folklore: Bioinformatic Approaches to the Study of International Folktales
- Analyses of a VirtualWorld
- Ghostscope: Conceptual Mapping of Supernatural Phenomena in a Large Folklore Corpus
- Complex Networks of Words in Fables
- Analysing and Restoring the Chronology of the Irish Annals
- Mapping Literate Networks in Early Medieval Ireland Quantitative Realities, Social Mythologies?
- How quantitative methods can shed light on a problem of comparative mythology: The myth of the struggle for supremacy between two groups of deities reconsidered