TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantifying the role of supernatural entities and the effect of missing data in Irish sagas
AU - MacCarron, P.
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PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - For over a decade, complex networks have been applied to mythological texts in order to quantitatively compare them. This has allowed us to identify similarities between texts in different cultures, as well as to quantify the significance of some heroic characters. Analysing a full mythology of a culture requires gathering data from many individual myths which is time consuming and often impractical. In this work, we attempt to by pass this by analysing the network of characters in a dictionary of mythological characters. We show that the top characters identified by different centrality measures are consistent with central figures in the Irish sagas. Although much of Irish mythology has been lost, we demonstrate that these most central characters are highly robust to a large random removal of edges.
AB - For over a decade, complex networks have been applied to mythological texts in order to quantitatively compare them. This has allowed us to identify similarities between texts in different cultures, as well as to quantify the significance of some heroic characters. Analysing a full mythology of a culture requires gathering data from many individual myths which is time consuming and often impractical. In this work, we attempt to by pass this by analysing the network of characters in a dictionary of mythological characters. We show that the top characters identified by different centrality measures are consistent with central figures in the Irish sagas. Although much of Irish mythology has been lost, we demonstrate that these most central characters are highly robust to a large random removal of edges.
KW - complex networks
KW - mythology
KW - social networks
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U2 - 10.5488/CMP.27.33803
DO - 10.5488/CMP.27.33803
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85206157237
SN - 1607-324X
VL - 27
JO - Condensed Matter Physics
JF - Condensed Matter Physics
IS - 3
M1 - 33803
ER -