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What Fans Think Greek Myth Smells Like: sea, smoke, and flower shampoo

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: In this paper, we use the Odeuropa information extraction system (version 2, Menini 2024) to extract smells from a corpus of fanfiction about Greek mythology, the MythFic corpus (Neugarten & Smeets 2023). We combine detected smells with fanfiction metadata to examine associations between smells, character gender and storyworld by comparing the smell-properties of male and female characters, and of stories situated in ancient and contemporary settings.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15424191

Authors: Neugarten, Julia, van Erp, Marieke

Institutions: Radboud University Nijmegen, KNAW Humanities Cluster

Language: English

Topic: Digital Humanities and Scholarship

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

Award: G5738932522