Challenge: Using an emotion-annotated dataset, we aim to provide a resource for the scientific community to study the emotional intricacies of classical literature.
Approach: They propose to provide an emotion-annotated dataset for classical literature and Western mythology using a multivariate time series and a deep learning masked language model.
Outcome: The proposed dataset reveals compelling patterns and phenomena within the Iliad's emotional landscape.

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