This paper describes a new digital approach to intertextual study involving the creation of a free online tool for the automatic detection of parallel phrases. A test comparison of Vergil’s Aeneid and Lucan’s Civil War shows that the tool can identify a substantial number of meaningful intertexts, both previously recorded and unrecorded. Analysis of these results demonstrates how automatic detection can provide more comprehensive and accessible perspectives on intertextuality as an aggregate phenomenon. Identification of the language features necessary to detect intertexts also provides a path toward improved automatic detection and more precise definitions of intertextuality.

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Intertextuality is an important part of linguistic and literary expression, and has consequently been the object of sustained scholarly attention from antiquity onward. The definition of intertextuality has been much debated, but it is commonly understood as the reuse of text where the reuse itself creates new meaning or has expressive effects, distinct from the unmarked reuse of language. 1 In recent years, digital humanists have taken various approaches to detecting forms of intertextuality. 2 This article reports on an advance in 1 In the area of Latin literature, which we focus on here, key works on intertextuality include

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This article examines the current state of active Latin pedagogy and practice, which includes speaking and writing as well as listening. It offers a short historical survey of the activities, methods, and aims of active Latin practitioners to provide bearings for those working with these methods, and information for those unfamiliar with them.