05 — Digital Humanities tools
Interactive instruments I have built for research and teaching. Feel free to use them. Most are best viewed on a larger screen.
Footnotes to Plato (and Aristotle), 1887–2022 ↗
A tool for seeing which works — and which individual passages — of Plato and Aristotle have drawn the most scholarly attention, and which remain understudied, across 135 years of philosophy and classics scholarship. It scans a corpus of ten journals for Stephanus and Bekker numbers (data drawn from JSTOR's text-analysis program), letting you plot attention to whole works or groups of works over time, compare distributions within a work through bar charts and heatmaps, and compile one-click bibliographies of every article in the corpus that treats a given passage.
Late Roman History Writing, 200 BCE – 510 CE ↗
An interactive timeline of the Latin- and Greek-writing historians of Rome: lifespans, dates of composition, the periods each work covers, historiographic form, authors' religious identities, and how completely the texts survive. Filter and toggle to trace the lineage from Greek to Latin historiography across seven centuries.