RomDraCor

Roman Drama Corpus, 36 plays in TEI P5 format, adapted from Perseus Digital Library, first converted to DraCor format in June 2019. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 US.

The corpus was enhanced and is maintained by Julia Jennifer Beine (Ruhr University Bochum) and Frank Fischer (Freie Universität Berlin). For a list of changes please see below.

Content: 20 comedies by Plautus, 6 comedies by Terence, 10 tragedies by Seneca.

Frontend: https://dracor.org/rom

If you want to cite the corpus, please use this publication:

• Julia Jennifer Beine, Frank Fischer, Viktor J. Illmer (2024). Just the Type: Analysing Character Typology in Roman Comedy with RomDraCor. In: Proceedings of DH2024: "Reinvention & Responsibility". 6–10 August 2024. George Mason University, Arlington, VA. Book of Abstracts. (doi:10.5281/zenodo.13801481)

Scans of the editions on which Perseus Digital Library based their digitisation:

• Plauti Comoediae. Recensuit et emendavit Fridericus Leo.

  • Volumen prius. Berlin: Weidmann 1895.
    • Amphitruo. Asinaria. Aulularia. Bacchides. Captivi. Casina. Cistellaria. Curculio. Epidicus. Menaechmi. Mercator.
  • Volumen alterum. Berlin: Weidmann 1896.
    • Miles Gloriosus. Mostellaria. Persa. Poenulus. Pseudolus. Rudens. Stichus. Trinummus. Truculentus. Vidularia. Fragmenta.

• Publii Terentii Comoediae sex. With a commentary by the rev. E. St. John Parry, M.A. London. Whittaker and Co. 1857.

  • Andria. Eunuchus. Heautontimorumenos. Adelphi. Hecyra. Phormio.

• L. Annaei Senecae Tragoediae. Recensuerunt Rudolfus Peiper et Gustavus Richter. Leipzig: Teubner 1921.

  • Hercules Furens. Troades. Phoenissae. Medea. Phaedra. Oedipus. Agamemno. Thyestes. Hercules Oetaeus. Octavia.

Changelog

25.06.2019

• Import of 36 plays.
• Adjust filenames (e.g., "pl.am_lat.xml" → "plautus-amphitruo.xml").
• xmllint --format --encode UTF-8

26.06.2019

• Add DraCor ID to publicationStmt.
• Add Wikidata IDs for authors and plays.
• Add licence information.
• Add who attributes to <sp>.
• Add <particDesc>.

09.12.2019

• Add gender information.

10.12.2019

• Add xml:lang="lat" to root element.

15.06.–12.08.2020

• Major correction of character IDs.

16.07.2020

• Add written act/scene indicators for Plautus following Leo's edition.

24.07.2020

• Reduce <div1> and <div2> to <div>.

29.07.2020

• Add "written" and "premiere" dates if available.

14.08.2020

• Add bibliographic record for each play.

18.08.–09.09.2020

• Add act segmentation for Seneca following Fitch 2018.

02.09.2020

• Add page numbers for Terence.
• Add written act/scene indicators for Terence.

17.01.2021

• Recode author information. (commit)

20.01.2021

• Add persistent Perseus URIs per play. (commit)

Known issues

• V/U incongruencies between different authors: especially for contrastive analyses, the different handling by the editors has to be taken into account (e.g., "ut" vs. "vt"; "ubi" vs. "vbi").