julian-schelb/latin-classical-intertextuality-queries

Latin Classical Intertextuality Queries

This dataset contains query texts used for finding intertextual relationships with classical Latin authors. It comprises the whole works of Hieronymus (Jerome) and Lactantius, which are searched against a corpus of classical Latin literature. It is part of a larger collection focused on detecting intertextual relationships between Jerome (Hieronymus), Lactantius and classical Latin literature.

Related Datasets

This queries dataset 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

queries = load_dataset("julian-schelb/latin-classical-intertextuality-queries", split="train")
print(f"Queries size: {len(queries)}")
print(queries[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 query texts in this dataset are sourced from the following digital repositories and critical editions: