Trying to Do a Word Count in The Odyssey

Dale Courtney

I'm reading thru Homer's "Odyssey" using the Perseus Library on Logos 6.

I'm trying to get a word count of how often each of the major characters appears in The Odyssey.

I see how to do that with Bible references, but not with a resource like "The Odyssey."

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Best,

Dale

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Dave Hooton

I see how to do that with Bible references,

A word count of a name like Odysseus should suffice? You don't need a special syntax and <Person Odysseus> wouldn't work anyway.

Dale Courtney

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/873306#Comment_873306

That's actually what I'm trying to do: to get a list of the number of times each of the characters (proper nouns) appears in the text.

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/873310#Comment_873310

Odyessey (Greek) has lemma tagging so Morph search analysis can be used for counting:

lemma:Ζεύς ,lemma:Ὀδυσσεύς ,lemma:Ποσειδῶν ,lemma:Ποσειδεών ,lemma:Ἀθήνη ,lemma:Τηλέμαχος ,lemma:Μέγης ,lemma:Ναιάς ,lemma:Μήδη ,lemma:Πηνελόπεια, lemma:Πάρις ,lemma:Ἀχαί̈ος ,lemma:Ἀπόλλων, lemma:Δῖος, lemma:Ἀρεύς , lemma:Ἀρή

Searching Odyssey (Greek) for Vocative Nominative Nouns encountered Morph Search limit of 10,000 results. Names are capitalized, which was helpful for creating a list of lemmas that could be expanded with more characters.

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MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/873310#Comment_873310

Can you run a concordance?

Dale Courtney

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/873324#Comment_873324

Thanks, but I don't have that tool available to me.

Dale Courtney

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/873317#Comment_873317

Thank you. That worked perfectly.

pax,
Dale

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/873341#Comment_873341

Thanks, but I don't have that tool available to me.

FYI - The concordance tool is an L7 feature and is available with a "Logos Now" membership.