I should note too that my observation of caesura(s) in performance is changing as I progress through the project and as my feel for the rhythm develops, so you should not look to my reading (at this point) for a consistent interpretation of pauses. arguments based on these data will only confirm and explain subjective choices made by me). It’s not clear to me that there’s any way to make a scientific judgment in all cases, and I wouldn’t like these data to contribute to any circular arguments (i.e. Often these breaks are pretty self-evident, but sometimes the performer has to decide (for instance) between a sense break or a formula break. Some lines do have one natural break, but some have none, some have two (Kirk’s “threefolders”), and a few have 3. The main reason I have included them here is so that my work may be of use to students who will be required to do so. (For the former, cf.Aeneid 1.101, for the latter, cf.Aeneid 1.383.) Caesura refers to a word-ending within a foot. I would not recommend using these for caesura statistics: some of the caesuras do need correcting, but more generally, I’m of the view that locating one main caesura in each line is inappropriate. A feature of Vergil's poetry that is often exploited is the degree to which the natural accent of the words in a particular period coincide or clash with the stresses required by the particular feet in a period. You can open them up in a spreadsheet app, convert to sql etc. See the header row for info on the fields.Īll the Iliad scansion is available as a set of csv files: IliadAllCSV. Each row of the spreadsheet is a syllable. These should open in your spreadsheet app of choice.
The aeneid scansion archive#
Here’s a zip archive with Iliad books 1-12: iliadcsv. I’ ll be uploading csv versions of the scansion. Lines are divs, and may be tagged with classes: speech, speaker’s name, new paragraph (for formatting only). Note that syllables that technically contain more than one word have to be treated as a single word. Each syllable is tagged as a span, with classes short/long, foot#, word#, wordend, hemi1/hemi2 (before or after main caesura), footend. If you’re interested in the scansion of the texts, you can use the source code of the pages as data.