Новая количественная модель Платоновского корпуса 1: Pseudoplatonica: проблемы происхождения и датировки

Платоновские исследования. 2024. Т. 20. № 1. С. 11–39.

Alieva O.

This paper represents the first step towards the construction of a new quantitative model of the Platonic corpus. The first part offers an overview of research positions regarding the origin and chronology of individual dubia and spuria. As an organising scheme for this review, we adopt the geological metaphor of accretion proposed by H. Thesleff. According to Thesleff, layers of varying authenticity accreted around a truly Platonic core. The phenomenon of “school accumulation” is inadequately described in terms of binary logic which divides all dialogues into “authentic” and “non-authentic”; the metaphor of accretion presupposes a more flexible concept of authorship. This, in turn, requires revisiting traditional quantitative approaches to corpus study and finding new ways to visualise “layers”, which will be done in the second part of the paper. Instead of hierarchical clustering algorithms, which combine only two clusters at each step, we propose to use network analysis to capture several “runners-up” at once.

Keywords: Платон, Plato, stylometry, стилометрия