Chris and I recently submitted an article, “Claudian’s Engagement with Lucan in his Historical and Mythological Hexameters,” based on our presentations in Geneva in November 2012, for inclusion in a conference volume to be published by Winter Verlag. It focuses on Claudian’s creation of intertexts (high-scoring bigram lemma matches found by Tesserae) consisting of phrases that are unique between two of his poems, De Raptu Proserpinae and De Consulatu Stilichonis, and Lucan’s Civil War. The idea is that phrases that are unique to Claudian and Lucan could be of particular interest in their intertextual relationship. “Unique” in this case means that the phrases do not appear in the other authors prior to Claudian in our corpus of Latin poetry at the time the article was produced (this included all canonical poets, but the corpus has since grown). To put Claudian’s intertextuality in context, we also produced similar comparisons of the intertextual relationships between prior epic poets and the Aeneid and Civil War respectively.
The data for these comparisons is available in folders through the following links:
Comparison of later epic poets with Vergil’s Aeneid
Comparison of later epic poets with Lucan’s Civil War
WARNING: the files are large, from 4-70MB.