The Creators of the Latinometer

Stan Goston (Regis University) is a software engineer who implemented the Latinometer for the web. He currently is a Reservist in the Air Force and a Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin.

Avi Swartz, a Colorado Mathlete and a Harvard undergraduate, adapted a Python program for the second version of Latinometer.

Eric Johnson (University of South Dakota) made the first Latinometer for our article, “Latinate Densities in the Speeches of Jane Austen.”

Mary DeForest (University of Colorado, Denver) author who was fortunate to enlist Johnson, Swartz and Goston to assist her research. Her articles on Academia ( https://ucdenver.academia.edu/MaryDeForest) discuss classical literature and the classical tradition in modern literature:

• A Short History of Classical Literature
• How the Odyssey was Performed
• Achilles and Polyphemus
• Odysseus' Scar and Tactile Narrative
• Female Choruses in Greek Tragedy
• Clytemnestra's Breast and the Evil Eye
• Gods in Livery: Apollo and Aphrodite Disguised as Servants in Tragedy
• Medea's Eye in the Text of Apollonius' Argonautica
• A Meal and a Nursing Sow: Two Foundation Symbols of Empire in Vergil’s Aeneid
• Human Sacrifice in the Aeneid
• The Central Similes of Horace's Cleopatra Ode
• Eighteenth-Century Women and the Languages of Power
• Jane Austen: Closet Classicist
• (with Eric Johnson) The Density of Latinate Words in the Speeches of Jane Austen's Characters
• Latin and Greco-Latin in Jane Austen's Novels
• Jane Austen and the Anti-Heroic Tradition
• Mrs. Elton and the Slave Trade
• Latinate and Germanic Diction in Austen
• Wind in the Willows: A Tale for Two Readers
• Mary Poppins and the Great Mother
• Baseball and the Evil Eye
• Thanksgiving as a Sacred Feast