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神话社会网络中的社区分析

Analysis of communities in a mythological social network

Pedro J. Miranda, Murilo S. Baptista, Sandro E. de S. Pinto

摘要:

古典荷马叙事的迷人本质一直吸引着西方文化,对哲学、历史、神话和文学都有贡献。然而,荷马的叙述有什么有趣之处呢?“乍一看,我们会发现荷马在《奥德赛》中的圣歌和《伊利亚特》中的狂想曲的每一页上都有文字上的吸引力和审美上的愉悦。其次,我们可以看到它的故事内容的一个偏颇的方面,从真实的历史到虚构的神话。为了涵盖这个一瞥,有一些新的考古发现,支持《伊利亚特》中描述的一些事件的历史性,因此也支持《奥德赛》。考虑到这些观察结果,并使用复杂网络理论的概念,我们设法建立和分析了一个跨越古典史诗《荷马的奥德赛》的社会网络。为了进一步了解,收集了拓扑量,以便将其社会网络定性地分为真实的或虚构的。结果表明,除了可拓性和巨连通域的大小外,所发现的大部分性质都属于真实的社交网络。为了测试网络真实的可能性,我们删除了一些神话成员,这些成员可能会在网络上留下虚构的印记。进行这种操作,修改后的社会网络导致了巨分量的连续混合和减少,正如对真实社交网络所预期的那样。总的来说,我们观察到《奥德赛》可能是一个虚构的元素加上真实的人际关系的混合体,这证实了其他作者对《伊利亚特》和考古证据的发现。

英文摘要:

The intriguing nature of classical Homeric narratives has always fascinated the occidental culture contributing to philosophy, history, mythology and straight forwardly to literature. However what would be so intriguing about Homer's narratives' At a first gaze we shall recognize the very literal appeal and aesthetic pleasure presented on every page across Homer's chants in Odyssey and rhapsodies in Iliad. Secondly we may perceive a biased aspect of its stories contents, varying from real-historical to fictional-mythological. To encompass this glance, there are some new archeological finding that supports historicity of some events described within Iliad, and consequently to Odyssey. Considering these observations and using complex network theory concepts, we managed to built and analyze a social network gathered across the classical epic, Odyssey of Homer. Longing for further understanding, topological quantities were collected in order to classify its social network qualitatively into real or fictional. It turns out that most of the found properties belong to real social networks besides assortativity and giant component's size. In order to test the network's possibilities to be real, we removed some mythological members that could imprint a fictional aspect on the network. Carrying on this maneuver the modified social network resulted on assortative mixing and reduction of the giant component, as expected for real social networks. Overall we observe that Odyssey might be an amalgam of fictional elements plus real based human relations, which corroborates other author's findings for Iliad and archeological evidences.

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