Pausanias Analysis

Tri-marked sentence-level mythic vs. historical analysis

Surface, excluding books 4 and 8, with rhetoric markers

This model drops sentences tagged other and fits a balanced TF-IDF logistic regression to the remaining mythic and historical tags.

Model Performance Metrics

The following metrics are from the logistic regression classifier's performance on the test set:

Class Precision Recall F1-Score Support
Historical 0.673 0.754 0.711 639
Mythic 0.755 0.674 0.712 717
Overall Accuracy 0.712 1356

Confusion Matrix

Predicted
Historical Mythic
Actual Historical 482 157
Mythic 234 483

Counts

5,424mythic/historical sentences
2,867mythic
2,557historical
1,000features

Predictors of Mythic Sentences

Sort by:
Word/Phrase English Coefficient Mythic Count Historical Count p-value q-value
λέγουσιν they say 2.9979 194 38 6.93e-24 3.46e-21
ἔπη words 2.3688 38 1 6.67e-10 6.67e-08
ἀφικέσθαι to arrive 2.0120 34 3 4.08e-07 1.57e-05
εἶναι to be 1.9473 345 106 3.41e-27 3.41e-24
ὄνομα name 1.8765 136 42 4.41e-11 6.31e-09
φασιν they say 1.8469 143 28 7.43e-18 2.48e-15
φασὶν they say 1.8207 79 15 1.23e-10 1.54e-08
ἔχειν to have 1.7533 29 9 0.00274 0.018
ἀνθρώπων of humans 1.7115 44 16 0.00108 0.00901
ἐστιν is 1.7013 214 96 2.48e-09 2.26e-07
ἐστὶν is 1.6222 116 50 5.72e-06 0.000156
γυναῖκα woman; wife 1.6092 48 11 4.13e-06 0.000122
δʼ but; and 1.5856 88 25 2.61e-08 1.45e-06
ἔστι there is 1.5322 81 33 6.14e-05 0.000944
αὐτόν him 1.5263 43 17 0.00275 0.018
πεποίηται has been made 1.5146 55 17 3.34e-05 0.000597
λόγοσ word; speech; account; reason; argument 1.4935 42 9 8.93e-06 0.000218
ἔνθα there; where; then 1.4738 58 22 0.000292 0.00349
νομίζουσιν they think 1.4630 23 2 5.43e-05 0.000869
θυγατέρασ daughters 1.4287 20 1 3.27e-05 0.000594
ποταμὸν river 1.4211 19 2 0.000319 0.00358
θυγατέρων of daughters 1.3987 14 1 0.00122 0.00952
θηρίον wild animal 1.3705 12 0 0.000589 0.00567
καὶ εἶναι and to be 1.3625 31 1 5.95e-08 3.13e-06
καλεῖται is called 1.3513 17 1 0.000201 0.00264
θυγατέρα daughter 1.3504 55 8 4.13e-09 3.18e-07
λέγουσι they say 1.3496 101 24 4.17e-11 6.31e-09
ἔχων having 1.3430 31 11 0.00515 0.0276
βωμὸσ altar 1.3389 19 0 5.93e-06 0.000156
ἔχει he/she/it has 1.3283 59 17 6.71e-06 0.000172

Predictors of Historical Sentences

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Word/Phrase English Coefficient Mythic Count Historical Count p-value q-value
ἐναντία opposite; contrary -2.3060 2 40 2.07e-11 5.19e-09
αὖθισ again -2.2017 28 79 1.44e-08 9.03e-07
πόλεμον war -1.9910 10 58 3.83e-11 6.31e-09
εἰκόνα image -1.9428 5 29 3.15e-06 9.55e-05
χρήματα money -1.8374 2 32 5.69e-09 4.07e-07
ἀναστάτουσ expelled -1.7127 1 19 9.48e-06 0.00022
πολέμου of war -1.7091 16 52 6.67e-07 2.38e-05
ἔργου of work -1.6303 2 26 3.6e-07 1.44e-05
πολέμωι in war; by/with war -1.5844 6 40 1.23e-08 8.21e-07
ἑκατὸν one hundred -1.5310 0 13 5.59e-05 0.000873
ζημίαν a penalty -1.5090 0 16 5.8e-06 0.000156
ἀνδρῶν of men; men's -1.4760 5 31 8.98e-07 2.99e-05
πολλά many; many things; often -1.4732 0 10 0.000537 0.00548
πυγμῆι with the fist -1.3985 1 14 0.00029 0.00349
καὶ πρότερον and previously -1.3867 2 20 3.62e-05 0.000634
ἐγένετο it happened -1.3623 43 90 1.35e-06 4.22e-05
σφῶν of them; their -1.3067 1 12 0.00112 0.00901
παγκρατίου of the pankration -1.2879 1 15 0.000147 0.00204
ἄνδρασ men -1.2865 15 39 0.000173 0.00233
ἐπίγραμμα epigram; inscription -1.2803 13 31 0.00168 0.0124
τότε then; at that time -1.2669 60 119 1.17e-07 5.32e-06
ἀνείλετο he/she/it killed -1.2591 1 19 9.48e-06 0.00022
οὐδὲ nor -1.2441 28 43 0.0225 0.0767
ὃσ who; which; that -1.2419 48 75 0.00186 0.0133
χρημάτων of money; of goods -1.2414 5 27 1.09e-05 0.000242
βαρβάρων of the barbarians -1.2390 7 27 0.000105 0.00156
τάφοι tombs -1.2176 4 10 0.105 0.232
αὐτῶν of them; their -1.2128 71 116 3.21e-05 0.000594
πολεμίων of the enemies -1.2021 0 12 0.000119 0.0017
ἐπʼ αὐτοῖσ on them -1.1968 3 12 0.0167 0.0628