By Allen Romano.
Μany have seen Wordles, representations of word frequency data (raw or relative) that allows you to appreciate, at a glance, which words (and by extension, ideas) might matter more, at the macro-level, for a particular text or set of texts. (Clouds like this are relatively common on websites to show popular tags and search terms of course.) Some may have even seen variations of this for Homer. Here’s Martin Mueller’s Wordles for lemmata more common in Homer’s Iliad vs. the Odyssey and, conversely, more common in the Odyssey vs. the Iliad....