https://grafemas.net/tags/plato/ Recent content in plato on Γραφεμας Hugo -- gohugo.io en Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://grafemas.net/blog/race/plato-embeddings/ Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://grafemas.net/blog/race/plato-embeddings/ Two previous notes applied fastText models to Herodotus and Euripides, tracing how the semantic neighborhood of βάρβαρος shifts between a military cluster (Herodotus) and a political-social cluster (Euripides). The Plato model extends the comparison to a third register — philosophical prose — and produces results that complicate any simple story of progressive naturalization. The first thing the Plato model shows is that βάρβαρος and Ἕλλην have become each other’s nearest neighbors, at a similarity of 0.