"Roman Letters grows out of a simple observation in Patrick Wyman's 2016 USC dissertation, Letters, Mobility, and the Fall of the Roman Empire: the late Roman world left behind an extraordinary volume of surviving correspondence. Senators, bishops, monks, and imperial officials all relied on letters to maintain relationships across vast distances, and many of those letters still exist, scattered across digital archives and critical editions. This project collects that scattered corpus into a single, structured database and provides tools for exploring the communication networks it reveals. The dataset The database currently contains: 8,112 Letters 60 Collections 1,888 People identified 4,464 First English translations 5,751 With distance data 6,914 Topic-tagged 460 Carrier mentions 92 Author bios Letters span from roughly 97 to 800 AD, covering the transition from the unified Roman Empire to the early medieval kingdoms of western Europe. Major collections include the letters of Augustine, Gregory the Great, Symmachus, Basil of Caesarea, Jerome, Cassiodorus, and Sidonius Apollinaris, among others."   submitted by   /u/previousinnovation [link]   [comments]