julian-schelb/latin-classical-intertextuality-corpus

Latin Classical Authors Corpus

This dataset contains processed texts from classical Latin authors, serving as a retrieval corpus for intertextuality research. It is part of a larger collection focused on detecting intertextual relationships between Jerome (Hieronymus), Cicero and classical Latin literature.

Related Datasets

This corpus is part of the Latin Jerome Intertextuality collection:

• —Queries: latin-classical-intertextuality-queries - The whole works of Hieronymus and Lactantius are used as queries for finding intertextual relationships (referencing authors).
• —Corpus: latin-classical-intertextuality-corpus - As corpus a selection of Classical Latin authors serving as retrieval target for intertextuality search. The authors are: Catullus, Cicero, Horatius, Lucanus, Lucretius, Martial, Ovidius, Propertius, Tibullus, Vergilius (referenced authors).
• —Labels: latin-classical-intertextuality-labels - Ground truth labels of verified intertextual relationships between Jerome + Lactantius and a selection of classical authors.

Dataset Description

• —Domain: Classical philology and digital humanities

Dataset Structure

Each entry contains the following structured fields:

• —id: Unique identifier for each text passage
• —text: Cleaned Latin text passage (primary field for retrieval)
• —text_original: Original text before cleaning
• —citation: Citation or position information

Usage

Example usage of the dataset with the Hugging Face datasets library:

from datasets import load_dataset

corpus = load_dataset("julian-schelb/latin-classical-intertextuality-corpus", split="train")
print(f"Corpus size: {len(corpus)}")
print(corpus[0])

Project Affiliation

This work was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG, Forschungsgemeinschaft) in the project "Zitieren als narrative Strategie. Eine digital-hermeneutische Untersuchung von Intertextualitätsphänomenen am Beispiel des Briefcorpus des Kirchenlehrers Hieronymus." \[Grant ID: 382880410\]

Click here to learn more about this project.

Contributors

This dataset is the result of a collaborative effort: Prof. Barbara Feichtinger, Dr. Marie Revellio, Michael Wittweiler, Franziska Schropp, Julian Schelb, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Spitz. This is not an exhaustive list, and we are grateful to all individuals who have supported this project in any capacity.

Citation

Please cite this dataset as follows:

@misc{schelb2026locisimilesbenchmarkextracting,
      title={Loci Similes: A Benchmark for Extracting Intertextualities in Latin Literature},
      author={Julian Schelb and Michael Wittweiler and Marie Revellio and Barbara Feichtinger and Andreas Spitz},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2601.07533},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.IR},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07533},
}

Sources

The texts in this corpus are sourced from the following digital repositories and critical editions: