Pausanias Analysis

Tri-marked sentence-level mythic vs. historical analysis

Surface, excluding books 4 and 8, without 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 0.665 0.721 0.692 639
Mythic 0.732 0.676 0.703 717
Overall Accuracy 0.698 1356

Confusion Matrix

Predicted
Historical Mythic
Actual Historical 461 178
Mythic 232 485

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
εἶναι to be 2.4003 345 106 3.41e-27 3.41e-24
ἔπη words 2.3966 38 1 6.67e-10 1.33e-07
ἀφικέσθαι to arrive 2.2922 34 3 4.08e-07 1.94e-05
ἔχειν to have 1.7922 29 9 0.00274 0.0194
ἀνθρώπων of humans 1.6954 44 16 0.00108 0.00979
ἔνθα there; where; then 1.5921 58 22 0.000292 0.00385
γυναῖκα woman; wife 1.5913 48 11 4.13e-06 0.000148
ἐστὶν is 1.5888 116 50 5.72e-06 0.000185
ἐστιν is 1.5620 214 96 2.48e-09 4.14e-07
δʼ but; and 1.5260 88 25 2.61e-08 2e-06
ποταμὸν river 1.5025 19 2 0.000319 0.00393
αὐτόν him 1.5006 43 17 0.00275 0.0194
θυγατέρασ daughters 1.4831 20 1 3.27e-05 0.000695
ἔστι there is 1.4574 81 33 6.14e-05 0.00108
νομίζουσιν they think 1.4353 23 2 5.43e-05 0.000996
ἔχει he/she/it has 1.4316 59 17 6.71e-06 0.000203
γυναικῶν of women 1.4117 24 8 0.00973 0.0455
θυγατέρα daughter 1.4115 55 8 4.13e-09 5.17e-07
πεποίηται has been made 1.4016 55 17 3.34e-05 0.000697
ἔστιν there is 1.3830 48 20 0.00269 0.0194
ἔτοσ year 1.3760 28 4 4.94e-05 0.000984
καὶ εἶναι and to be 1.3699 34 2 7.04e-08 4.69e-06
θηρίον wild animal 1.3654 12 0 0.000589 0.00608
εἶναι καὶ also to be 1.3614 63 7 1.27e-11 6.36e-09
αὐτῶι to him 1.3558 154 101 0.0131 0.0581
θυγατέρων of daughters 1.3389 14 1 0.00122 0.0102
βωμὸσ altar 1.3315 19 0 5.93e-06 0.000185
καλεῖται is called 1.3215 17 1 0.000201 0.00295
γενέσθαι to become 1.3203 155 63 2.02e-08 1.69e-06
πρῶτον first; first of all 1.2880 56 22 0.000574 0.00608

Predictors of Historical Sentences

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Word/Phrase English Coefficient Mythic Count Historical Count p-value q-value
ἐναντία opposite; contrary -2.3877 2 40 2.07e-11 6.91e-09
αὖθισ again -2.2403 28 79 1.44e-08 1.31e-06
πόλεμον war -2.0446 10 58 3.83e-11 9.58e-09
εἰκόνα image -1.9911 5 29 3.15e-06 0.000117
χρήματα money -1.9404 2 32 5.69e-09 6.33e-07
ἀναστάτουσ expelled -1.7669 1 19 9.48e-06 0.000263
πολέμου of war -1.7562 16 52 6.67e-07 3.03e-05
ἔργου of work -1.7347 2 26 3.6e-07 1.8e-05
πολέμωι in war; by/with war -1.6282 6 40 1.23e-08 1.23e-06
ζημίαν a penalty -1.6010 0 16 5.8e-06 0.000185
ἀνδρῶν of men; men's -1.5253 5 31 8.98e-07 3.74e-05
ἑκατὸν one hundred -1.4888 0 13 5.59e-05 0.000998
πυγμῆι with the fist -1.4624 1 14 0.00029 0.00385
πολλά many; many things; often -1.4522 0 10 0.000537 0.0059
ἐγένετο it happened -1.4501 43 90 1.35e-06 5.19e-05
καὶ πρότερον and previously -1.4132 2 20 3.62e-05 0.000738
ἐπίγραμμα epigram; inscription -1.3942 13 31 0.00168 0.0133
χρημάτων of money; of goods -1.3440 5 27 1.09e-05 0.000286
οὐδὲ nor -1.3438 28 43 0.0225 0.0814
ἀνείλετο he/she/it killed -1.2783 1 19 9.48e-06 0.000263
βαρβάρων of the barbarians -1.2591 7 27 0.000105 0.00178
παγκρατίου of the pankration -1.2576 1 15 0.000147 0.0023
σφῶν of them; their -1.2462 1 12 0.00112 0.00979
οἰκίασ of the house; houses -1.2394 8 20 0.00905 0.0448
στράτευμα army -1.2368 2 13 0.00287 0.0194
χαλκοῦν of bronze; brazen -1.2343 7 21 0.00261 0.0189
τυραννήσασ having become a tyrant -1.2273 0 9 0.00114 0.00984
τάφοι tombs -1.2258 4 10 0.105 0.239
πολεμίων of the enemies -1.2152 0 12 0.000119 0.00192
τότε then; at that time -1.2125 60 119 1.17e-07 6.88e-06