Maths Meets Myths: Quantitative Approaches to Ancient Narratives

With an emphasis on exploring measurable aspects of ancient narratives, Maths Meets Myths sets out to investigate age-old material with new techniques. This book collects, for the first time, novel quantitative approaches to studying sources from the past, such as chronicles, epics, folktales, and myths. It contributes significantly to recent efforts in bringing together natural scientists and humanities scholars in investigations aimed at achieving greater understanding of our cultural inheritance. Accordingly, each contribution reports on a modern quantitative approach applicable to narrative sources from the past, or describes those which would be amenable to such treatment and why they are important. This volume is a unique state-of-the-art compendium on an emerging research field which also addresses anyone with interests in quantitative approaches to humanities. • Bibliographic Information Book Title: Maths Meets Myths: Quantitative Approaches to Ancient Narratives Editors: Ralph Kenna, Máirín MacCarron, Pádraig MacCarron Series Title: Understanding Complex Systems Copyright 2017 Publisher: Springer International Publishing Copyright Holder: Springer International Publishing Switzerland eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39445-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-39445-9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39443-5 Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81887-0 Series ISSN: 1860-0832 Edition Number 1