Digital Analysis of Place Names in De Raptu Cerberi

Sa？etak Towards the end of the 15th century, Jakov Buni？ published the oldest epic poem in Croatian literature, De Raptu Cerberi. Presenting Hercules as a figure of Christ, Buni？ combines Catholic symbolism and ancient mythology. Part of the mythological ornatus are references to places, both real and imaginary. We wanted to study these references. To do so, we considered five aspects of each place reference: its ？placeness？ (the level of certainty that a word marks a place), lemma, morphology, and reference to the space and time of the external world. All of our annotations are connected in a digital framework, so it is possible to focus on the interesting cases. What are all the examples of a real place in an imaginary time? What morphological patterns exist in multiword expressions? What does the underworld consist of for Buni？? These are just a few of the possible research questions we can now begin to answer